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Ärende: [VOICENWS] SW: RexxMail -- new management?
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From: "Marcus de Geus" <marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com> 



[RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which
uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of
functions and options with full command-line access.]

Guys,

I am sorry to have to announce that I shall be ceasing development of my
OS/2-eCS programs, including RexxMail. After a dozen years of stalwart
service, the time has come for my OS/2-eCS work environment to make way
for a next generation operating system. Having played with an iBook for
the last couple of months, I have decided that the Apple platform now
offers a viable alternative to the WPS, for my purposes at least. I shall
therefore be making the transition from OS/2-eCS to the Apple platform
sometime in the future. However, since it will probably take me some time
to migrate all my stuff, I may be using my present work platform for a
while yet. So, for those of you using RexxMail or any of my other REXX
apps, the message is:

	DON'T PANIC!

Sounds familiar, eh? Seriously though, there is no reason to lose your
cool. I will still be offering support for some time to come, and your
questions will still be answered, or at least receive a reply.

As soon as I can find the time, I intend to wrap up my RexxMail code and
development environment into a ZIP archive for someone else to take over. 


The RexxMail code consists of (a lot of) plain text files containing the
component REXX routines/procedures for the RexxMail program, the REXX code
for the installation program, the plain text sources for the Reference
Guide and Tutorial, and HTML web site templates. There is also a full set
of icons and related graphics files as well as some external binaries. The
development environment includes REXX programs for updating, checking and
"compiling" the main program and installation program code into single CMD
files, for updating and compiling the Reference Guide and Tutorial INF
documentation files, and for creating a ZIPped distribution file as well
as the HTTP code for an updated set of RexxMail web pages. All the REXX
code is fully documented (line by line) and designed to be easy to read,
so anyone with a modicum of REXX knowledge should be able to get things up
and running in a minimum of time. Instructions will be included.

If anyone would like to volunteer for the job, please apply to me at my
normal @ddress, see below. If I receive no response to this call for new
management, I will post the ZIP archive to Hobbes so anybody interested
can download it for their own use.

Before then I hope to release a final (by me, anyway) version of RexxMail
with a few bug fixes that should see RexxMail users through until someone
else picks up where I left off -- or not, as the case may be.

The relevant announcements will be posted through this channel, as always.

I would like to thank all of you who took the time to download and try my
programs, and perhaps even use them on a regular basis, and in particular
those of you who went to the trouble of sending me bug reports and
requests for features, even words of thanks and praise. It's been great
fun!

Last but not least, thanks to the efforts of the OS/2 and eCS development
community, I will always be able to boast that in my twenty years of
working on PCs I never used a Microsoft Windows system!

Best regards,

Marcus de Geus
-- 
marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com
http://www.degeus.com


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