FW: cd's

[John Esak]

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Thanks Dennis,
I'm forwarding this nice note of yours to the list, as I asked.  Yes, it's a
little self-serving of me, but I would have posted it even if it were all
negative comments.  The  CD's are all about filePro, and yours is just one
of many notes I've been getting from everyone.   But, everyone is sending to
me *privately* about the Survivor Series, and this is nice, but I would much
rather get various dialogs going here, then in my personal mailbox.
Besides, the CD's were so much work, I want to have the feedback benefit
this forum if possible. I can certainly take the praise (or scorn :-)).
And, hopefully, the discussions will be more about the substance of the
Chapters.

So, in future, may I ask all of you who are going through the series to put
your comments here. rather than sending them to me personally.  I won't
forward any of the others.  Dennis's was pretty indicative of them ...
(aside from the I got a bad disk or an extra disk or whatever... type notes.
I would never forward those which are just complimentary (or negative...
none yet, thank goodness), but I'm hoping there will be more "meat", too...
and thanks for letting me make this one public.

I'd much rather spark some discussions on the list  than keep them private.
The mention of "turning off the browse" by Dennis below is an allusion to a
suggestion I make to turn off  the "F6-browse-lookup" function in IUA with
the -lx flag or the PFLX environment variable (which I talk about somewhere
in the Runtime stuff). Saves me a lot of grief. At heart, I feel providing
the F6 function to end-users is essentially more dangerous and troublesome
than it is worth. I'm sure there are lots of folks who would disagree.

John




-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Malen [mailto:dmalen at malen.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 1:40 PM
To: john at valar.com
Subject: cd's


John,

I received the CD's yesterday and took them home.

I popped in the cd for the non-programmer  which I thought would be boring
but I already learned things that I did not known. Although they were
facilities that you didn't want a user to use anyway. I am now deactivating
the Browse function.

I can't wait to get into the real meat. We all taught ourselves filePro, but
it is quite apparent that you know a lot more.

These are really great.

Regards,

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912