Re: [MiNT] Thing/Ming (was: nfs)

[PeterSlegg <peterslegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

Hi Thomas,

It's a real shame that Milan didn't pay what you deserve
for your work on Ming.

BTW I would happily pay for an English update version.

Regards,

Peter

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:39:50 , Thomas Binder <gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:30:46PM +0200, PeterSlegg wrote:
> > Thing is my my preferred dekstop by a large margin. It
> > doesn't seem to like big partitions, giving very
> > strange sizes in the info and copy dialogue boxes and
> > the old problem of long filenames is still annoying
> > when extracting zips or downloading rpms.
>
> AFAIR, the size information dialog of 1.29? works properly when
> the values to show grow larger than 2^32-1. The beta also has
> (incomplete) support for filenames with up to 64 characters.
>
> > Any chance of producing a Ming update ?
>
> No - the Milan's company is dead and I have never received
> anything of the money agreed to be payed for each unit sold.
>
> Besides, it's likely that the final release of Thing will be
> freeware (but not open source), anyway. In that case, there
> wouldn't be a need for a Ming / N.Thing update at all.
>
>
> Ciao
>
> Thomas
>
>



 
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