How to make best use of jbofi'e?

[And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>]

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Bearing in mind that I've not used or downloaded it -- and do tell me
if I'm talking out my arse here -- I'd like to ask if there are any clever 
ways of using it in a Windows invironment, or whether one has to 
create a text file and run jbofi'e on it -- which is something one
probably wouldn't bother to do for, say, an email message with
one sentence of Lojban in it.

--And..