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From: mun@hpcc01.HP.COM (Duane T. Mun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Is CXL package available?  Is Mike Smedley alive???
Message-ID: <17590001@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 23:31:19 GMT
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Heres something I found in comp.os.msdos.programmer:

In <666@csource.oz.au> david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) writes:

>In <2154@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mike Hovan) writes:
>
>> Also does anyone know what happened to the CXL Tech Support BBS?  I am
>> getting a "The number you have reached....disconnected" message.
>
>
>The following might help:
>
>
>Borland RoundTable
>Category 2,  Topic 150
>Message 1         Fri Aug 17, 1990
>M.SMEDLEY [Mike]             at 12:15 CDT
>
>
>                        A N N O U N C E M E N T
>
>    The CXL C function library, and all rights to market and support it, have
>been sold.  CXL has been a pleasure to produce and support in the past, but
>many things have come up, resulting in substandard service to CXL users.  The
>sale was needed to ensure CXL's growth and dominance in the shareware C
>library market.
>
>    The new owner of CXL is Chip Rabinowitz and his company Innovative Data
>Concepts.  Chip is well-known in the programming community for his work on the
>TesSeRact TSR libraries and the Swap Utilities.  He is also very active on
>CompuServe, providing invaluable advice to both novice and expert programmers.
>Chip is an active member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
>
>    All future CXL orders, inquiries, and support will be handled by
>Innovative Data Concepts.  Their address is 1657 The Fairways, Suite 101,
>Jenkintown, PA 19046.  They can be contacted via electronic mail on CompuServe
>(70731,20) or MCI Mail (315-5415). For tech support call: 215-884-3373; FAX:
>215-886-4226; orders: 1-800-926-4551.
>
>    A new version of CXL is due out around September 1st, 1990, and will
>contain all enhancements to CXL since version 5.2.  CXL will be renamed to the
>"TesSeRact CXL Windowing Library" and will initially appear as version 5.5.
>
>-- 
>
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I called Innovative Data Concepts, they said the new release of CXL (5.5)
will be ready Sept. 20, 1990.

- Duane