Re: cobfd

From: Carol (kgdg_at_helkusa.com)
Date: 07/28/04


Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:04:28 -0600

did you write the cobfd program???

"Michael Mattias" <michael.mattias@gte.net> wrote in message
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> "Carol" <kgdg@helkusa.com> wrote in message
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> > hi why can an old, free program like this spit translate the file defs,
> but
> > nowhere on the planet can a simple program read the file def and the
data
> > and just translate the data?
> >
> > would that be a frreeware DOS program that puts you all out of business?
> > scratch scratch
>
> Thank you very much for your nice (?) words..
>
> But I must confess to mixed feelings: I have to believe you have just
> supplied my very last fan letter - EVER - for one of my MS-DOS programs.
>
> ---------
> FWIW, I did for a time offer a freeware DLL which WOULD translate the
> data... you just plug in the info from the FD, tell it in what format you
> want it out, and ZAP it's done.
>
> However, interest was insufficient to warrant the effort to sex it up
(read
> "dummy-proof") it enough to market it. So now it's just part of my
personal
> library. I use it when I need it. (No longer available as freeware).
>
> --
> Michael Mattias
> Tal Systems, Inc.
> Racine WI
> mmattias@talsystems.com
> (Author/Contributor of COBFD software).
>
>
>



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