dtcweb.com was the very first domain name I ever registered. I now own three -- dtcweb.com, ubersoft.net, and baptistdeathray.com. Ubersoft.net and baptistdeathray.com are still in use, but dtcweb.com has become sort of a placeholder domain -- it's an email address, mostly (and, alas, mostly for spam, which is PISSING ME OFF) and used as a master domain for sites where I dither over this and that. Mostly I use it to test blogging software. I'm currently testing MovableType on it. I used it to muck about with Greymatter before I decided to use Greymatter on baptistdeathray.com.

Originally, dtcweb.com was going to be a website called Desktop Communications -- it was going to be a resource for OS/2 users who wanted to use OS/2 as a publishing platform. This was in 1997 or 1998, I think. That fell to pieces when I got more and more involved in OS/2 eZine. I'm not really involved in OS/2 eZine any more, but there aren't too many publishing applications available for OS/2 other than papyrus so there doesn't seem much point in picking up that banner either.

So I've been trying to find a use for that domain, because it seems criminal to just leave it lying about and gathering dust. But I can't think of anything to do with it.

Not that I'm demanding the community give me ideas, mind you. It's just an open forum, see, and I reckon that means "random cranks are permitted to blather out loud here about meaningless drivel here..." :)

What's a WIKI?

Maul is what I meant, I got it confused with Papyrus. And Maul is good in its way, it's sort of like Framemaker (and it's really fast and a well designed app) but it's not really a full-fledged DTP product. It doesn't support kerning, doesn't have any pre-press functionality -- the only real prepress support OS/2 has is to print to a postscript file and try to *edit* that.

A long time ago IBM made a deliberate decision not to improve the way OS/2 handled fonts, and because of that it became pretty useless for real publishing applications to flourish.