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Manual for eFTE/2 / eFTE / FTE (Folding Text Editors)

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Lars:
Ok, first things first:
I sincerely hope you don't get run over by a truck. Not for a piece of SW anyway :-)

My questions were not meant as an insult. But I thought you had been working on eFTE all along.
And for eFTE, I can at least find it on Hobbes. For NEPMD, I can only find a very old version on Netlabs.
I know that Andreas Schnellbacher is working on NEPMD but I have no clue how he can be contacted or where to get the most recent version.

As to Netlabs: ok, I have been working on the USB repo for the last 7 years on a fairly regular basis. Maybe that is the reason why I would "pick up" all the proper transitions. But Adrian Gschwend has and will always be helpful to get you access to the SVN repo you need to work on. In particular if you already contributed in the past (let me know if you need his email address ...).
For you updated documentation, I'd put that in the eFTE repo right away. It's important that things don't get lost or spread all over the place in an uncontrolled fashion. Even if the documentation is not completely ready yet ...


Andreas Schnellbacher:

--- Quote from: Lars on December 04, 2017, 02:32:29 pm ---I know that Andreas Schnellbacher is working on NEPMD but I have no clue how he can be contacted or where to get the most recent version.

--- End quote ---
He is reading what you're typing. ;-) A few days ago, I noticed that they've closed my old web site. The old test version 1.13 is not available anymore. I already have a plan where to go (also influenced by your posting here):

* V. 2.00 will have updated docs.
* V. 2.00 beta (1.19) will include everything except the updated docs.
* V. 2.00 alpha (1.18) will be made available in a few weeks.
* V. 1.17 can be obtained on request: prename dot lastname, followed by at, follwed by web dot de. It can also be compiled by yourself, if you have VAC 3.08 or C Set/2.There are still a few things to do before spreading the current version, e.g. rename setting keys, move code, rename files. Note that a newer version always contains code to remove and change stuff from older versions. But I decided to to that first, before the first beta.

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Alfredo.

Thanks for posting your manual. Currently it is hard to find people that want to document OS/2 software. I will recommend you to upload the manual to Hobbes and the Internet Archive also.

It depends too much how you like to write the manual, but there is also the eFTE/2 Track wiki and the OS2World wiki where you can collaborate to also post some of your documentation.

I don't use eFTE/2 but I applaud your efforts on the platform.

Regards

Alfredo Fernández Díaz:
Hi, Martin, thank you. Now that I have access again, I will soon upload the manual to the main repository, either after some refactoring, or in its current form if I get no feedback within a reasonable amount of time. From my experience I thought I would have to wait a bit more to do it so I tried to make the interim productive.
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Lars, sorry if I got a bit overboard, I tried not to. Regarding NEPMD and Andreas, I think now you can ask him to publish both a new version *and* a valid, updated, visible contact address with it ;)

However, please note his words: "I noticed they've closed my old web site". Sounds familiar? It's not just Netlabs.

So far my activity has come mostly in bursts, but that's the way it is for most of us. The problem is, the fewer we are, the more that builds up with everybody else's discontinuities. I don't doubt Adrian may still be very helpful (last time we met was like 15 years ago), but what Netlabs really needs and lacks is some working self-sustaining infrastructure. Of course some admin has to know who you are before granting some privileges, of course site revamps are necessary from time to time, but it's entirely beyond any common sense that you need to get in touch with them every single time anything happens when you look away--It's not that I was cut off even from projects I managed (notably FAT32): in 2017 I can't even reset my own passwords TTBOMK. What if a project's admin goes away for a while? Or something really bad happens? Yet another discontinuity. Or a bunch of them. Or the final one: "Oh, I lost access to X/Y/Z. Again. F*ck it."

Over time I have came to limit the time fraction I will devote to chasing people around, so I can actually try and write stuff instead. Now that I can commit and publish properly again, tidying and cleaning up will come soon, rest assured, but given the current state of affairs I'm afraid that shrink-wrapping stuff will remain a second priority for quite a while.

Thanks for reading. Back to the manual? :)

Martin Iturbide:
Hi Alfredo.

What about a new logo (and in vector format) for the project inspired on the icon?

Regards

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