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From: Pd on 9 Jun 2010 03:32 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Except that the iPhone's folders are a more realistic metaphor than the > Mac's - after all, how many people have real folders that contain > folders full of folders? At least two. Both my wife and I have filing cabinets with hanging files, which are essentially folders full of folders. And some of those folders contain folders. -- Pd
From: Pd on 9 Jun 2010 03:34 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a > decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). > > I want those years back. Is it okay to say I really liked dBaseII? -- Pd
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 03:47 On 2010-06-09, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a >> decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). >> >> I want those years back. > > Is it okay to say I really liked dBaseII? No, that's fine. But I had to use it in anger for too many years, and it gave me a lot of reasons to be angry. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Graeme on 9 Jun 2010 03:32 In message <877vdjFl6hU1(a)mid.individual.net> Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2010 10:47, Jim wrote: > > On 2010-06-08, Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Jim<jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >>> On 2010-06-08, Jaimie Vandenbergh<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> > >>> wrote: > >>>>>> Calling Charlie Stross... sounds like an instance of BASILISK STARE > >>>>>> being released into the wild to me. Come to think of it, Retina, > >>>>>> TURN > >>>>>> and ICE sound like some sort of countermeasures too. > >>>>> > >>>>> "ICE - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics" (c/o William Gibson) > >>>> > >>>> Eep - Neuromancer was released 26 years ago! I feel old. > >>> > >>> And to my shame I've still not read it. > >> > >> Freak > > > > [hangs head in shame] > > > > Jim > > Don't. It's sci fi. You have to grow out of it sometime. Why? -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Jim on 9 Jun 2010 03:54
On 2010-06-09, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> > >> > <bzzzt> There was no dBase 1 - it started at II. (But it did start with >> > a dot. Which was perfectly okay in the days when you were expected to >> > RTFM first.) >> >> .modi comm myprog >> >> >> I -lived- in dBaseII (and then later IV, missing III mostly) for about a >> decade. I also dabbled in Clipper (dBaseIII compiler). > > I used II and III extensively, although I don't remember using IV. > I loved III. IV added support for Multiple Indexes (one index file containing more than one index). It also vastly improved network multi-user stuff - except that IV v1.0 had a bug that meant the multiple indexes didn't update properly in a multi user environment, leading to frequent re-indexing requirements. 1.1 fixed that, but I nearly throttled the Ashton Tate guys at a show. Or was it Borland by then? Can't remember. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett |