Re: bae 64 encoding
- Posted by Warren Evans <warren.evans at USA.NET> Jan 28, 1997
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ M. Packard wrote: Weird. I figured everyone called a service provider through a terminal program on their pc. I use commo, which is about as dumb terminal program as you get (it works though, and is 100 times faster to get to my email through the unix shell account than starting windoze\winsock\netscape) log into my shell account and run pine from unix. Everyone who has a unix(or linux) shell account should have access to pine. I use tin to read the newsgroups. Michael Packard -------------------------------------------------------- You're right, of course - using the Unix shell is much faster. I use Telix for that. But I've gotten hooked on Agent 99's features - sorting, folders, filters, etc. For instance my filters for alt.best.of.internet remove about 70-80% of the posts. It really helps not to have to look at so much junk. I know, tin has killfiles - Agent's are just easier to use. I handle the speed problem by using Sean's Scheduler to pick up news and email at 4am. I surf the web with images turned off, and still have time to read my downloaded newsgroups and email during the World Wide Wait. (Ob Euphoria Reference) Speaking of speed, perhaps future Euphoria versions could benefit from the concept of the jiffy. In physics, a jiffy is sometimes defined as the time it takes light to travel one meter. In programming, it can be 1/100th or 1/60th of a second, depending on the language. Jiffies are much more appropriate to computer speeds than seconds. Regards, Warren