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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Rettig lib for Clipper 5.0 now in P.D.
Keywords: Clipper, Clipper 5.0, Summer '87, Summer '90
Message-ID: <1586@ashton.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 90 20:32:09 GMT
References: <1502@ashton.UUCP> <4142@anomaly.sbs.com>
Reply-To: tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <4142@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>
>>"TRL4CL.ZIP is the same award-winning software that sold thousands
>>of copies at $99.95.  [deletion]  All rights were 
>>released into the Public Domain by Tom Rettig Associates on October
>>22, 1990.  [deletion] 
>
>Has anyone verified this firsthand?

Tom Rettig _himself_ handed me a diskette containing TRL4CL.ZIP and
a short explanatory text file at the October meeting of the 
Los Angeles Clipper Users Group.  Since he works almost exclusively
with FoxPro these days, he said he can no longer afford to update
or support the library in a reasonable manner.  He decided to donate
it to the Public Domain so that his efforts would not be lost.  (BTW,
his library _always_ included full source code, something that is still 
rare to this day in the world of Clipper add-on products.)

If other netters still remain skeptical, Tom Rettig's office number
in the Marina del Rey area of Los Angeles is (213) 272-3784.


Tom Rombouts  Torrance Techie  tomr@ashtate.A-T.com  V:(213) 538-7108