Re: YARN versions? Any native Win95

From: Michael Raiteri (mraiteri@dyson.brisnet.org.au)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:01:03 -0500

debraw@wwa.com (Debra Walker) wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:17:45 -0500, in yarn.list,
>article <5Mt3ycHfolOU092yn@dyson.brisnet.org.au>,
>mraiteri@dyson.brisnet.org.au (Michael Raiteri) wrote:
>
>>I am intending to give Win95 a try. I know there is a file
>>souper95.exe which I presume is a win95 version of souper.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me if there are any native win95 equivalents of
>>YARN, FTE and YEP.
>
>There is a version of Yarn that has been ported to Win95 called Yarn95.
>I don't know anything about FTE, but I think that the YES program might
>be considered as the DOS/Windows equivalent of YEP. I could be wrong
>about the latter statement, though.
>
>>As well what archiver does Win95 use to pack, add to and unpack the
>>reply.zip file
>
>Well, I use pkzip/pkunzip for that purpose. You could probably use
>other archiving programs, as well, e.g. zip/unzip.
>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>I hope this helped, at least somewhat...
>
>Debra Walker
>
>--
>Debra Walker debraw@wwa.com

Thanks. It at least gives me a start. Do you know if the win95 port of
Yarn can read the news.dat file that I currently have under OS/2

Cheers
Mike

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