Proper quoting (was RE: Antiquated Software)

[Kenneth Brody]

(Top-posting for a reason.)

Please configure your e-mail client to properly quote messages.  There
is absolutely no way to know where the original message starts, and
the reply begins, in the following posting.  (Short of finding the
original message to which he's replying, and comparing the two.)

There have been several posts like this today.  (I forget by whom.)  I
did not bother reading any of them, since I had no way of knowing who
said what.

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Quoting GCC Consulting (Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:16:50 -0500):
>   _____
>
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Anthony
> Terrible
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:03 PM
> To: File Pro List
> Subject: RE: Antiquated Software
>
>
> The thing that bothers me the most about you people defending Filepro is
> you keep pointing out poor programming. Filepro don't fix that either.
> Why
> don't you tell me what Filepro can do that I can't do with Mysql and VB,
> or
> C++, or C# or any number of programming languages. The reason is you
> can't,
> period. I really like the one where they make system calls to bring up
> Internet Explorer,(oh my God, a GUI program) and put them at the UPS web
> site. That's nice. I can make XML calls to their web site and have the
> information and display it to you faster then IE opens.
>
> How about programming speed?
>
> Now I'll grant you that you can do more with the tools that you are
> working
> with.  but for raw speed in getting up an application, I'll take filePro
> over any that you are using.
>
> Now, I am stating this for the type of clients I work with.
>
> By the way, I have nothing against GUI applications.  I saw that my
> client
> needed an easy way to get tracking information periodically about a
> shipment
> and I wanted to make it easy for him to get it.  I didn't;t need any
> outside
> tools, filePro allowed me to accomplish my goal.  By the way, he can get
> tracking on up to 5 shipments, the max. UPS allows in one pass.  His
> workstations are quite fast and the response is almost instantaneous.
>
> Tell me, how long would it take you, with any of the above to program
> the
> following:
>
> 1. Questionnaire file containing 12 questions
> 2. Two separate files with names
> 3. Have the associated questionnaire appear on screen when the record is
> looked at.
>
> This is not the only information stored in the two name files.
>
> I answered this challenge in a previous e-mail.  But in filePro I did
> this
> in 15 minutes.  this was while my Clients were out of the room we were
> talking in and they had to take a conference call.  They had just asked
> me
> to do this and it was completed by the time they returned.
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting

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