> Executive summary: Livingston is dropping support for text mode
> utilities. Those of us that have to use text mode are screwed.
Why are they screwed? Just because they dropped support of the pm 11 for
example, didnt mean pm 11 owners were screwed. There are LOTS of people
using pmcommand, pminstall, etc...and they work just fine, and as long as
there are lots of people using them, there will always be helpful postings
to portmaster-users.
> > well. The new tools are written entirely in Java, which gives us a couple
> > of advantages. First, Java is a much better programming language than C or
Just because its Java does not mean text is going away. Its just a
different language. Most systems have java interp/compilers now.
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