Re: Moving Microfocus 3.1 to a better laptop

Pete Dashwood wrote:
Hi Jimmy,

I was so shocked and horrified by your experience (and it is a signal
warning to PaulH to be very careful before trying to move stuff)
that I'd really like to help. Some thoughts below...

Not quite as bad as it sounds. I could have looked at the M/F site to give Paul references, but on the spur of the moment googled and found at least one page, (maybe there were more). Thought - this will give him several lead-ins to M/F and he might pick up on something I was unaware of - to the point, I was not aware of the 'Revoke' feature.

Paul - If just dabbling with Net Express, you may not need the SP1 (Service Pack) updates. I think the compiler is fairly SOLID and if the fixpacks did anything material, it was probably to add ons outside of the compiler itself.

Pete - Somebody, not associated with the licensing, has already offered to follow-up on my key in so far as he can. The Incident Report goes back to mid-April. Other than no reply, not their fault it wasn't concluded. In my declining enthusiasm for programming and having had hip surgery May 2007, I thought "Sod it! I'm going to spend this year in the garden". Needless to say, couldn't do much last year so both physically and mentally it was a good exercise I've been enjoying, and continue to enjoy until everything gets zapped with frost in late September, (weather is gorgeous today).

Regrettably, think I'm going to have to reformat my XP and re-load everything. Uggh ! I'll do an 'OT' on the re-install which answers some of the points you made.

Let's use a Pareto analysis; there are 99.8% good guys using their compiler, so just to ensure 0.2% bad guys don't get away with a freebie version, penalize and irritate the 99.8% with License Keys.

There are currently very few messages in the M/F Forum on a daily basis - I've been wondering why for some time now - dotNet perhaps ? From a couple of messages, and I'm sure originally he was enthused, Rene doesn't sound like a happy camper.

I want to get back and answer John with his Easytrieve problem. I get the feeling he is young and 'drowning' a bit.

Jimmy
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