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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Any ToolBook users want to exchange Books??
Message-ID: <0yc0u3w163w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 91 16:29:08 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- ELT Computer Applications Group) writes:
> In article <299@shograf.UUCP> jim@shograf.UUCP (jim morris) writes:
> >Is there any demand for a toolbook users newsgroup??
> To small an audience - not even Actor gets its own group yet.
> 
> >Is it legal to distribute the .tbk files to other people who have toolbook??
> Yep .tbks are yours and yours alone, unless you didn't write 'em

Well, I'd like to see some toolbook files from other people... I'm afraid I
don't really have anything to swap at the moment.

> >Also a list of known bugs that have been discovered, but Asymetrix won't 
> >own up to, would be nice!
> yeah, and lets start with discussion of that dBase DLL. I'd like to
> tortureAndKill() a few Asymetrix employees - stand by for some code 
> examples of the bugs in that thing.

I'd like to torture and kill the person who wrote DayBook; or at least, the
genius who decided that it should insist on MM/DD/YY for the date format
and am/pm for the time. What the hell did they put the sysDateFormat property
in for if they're not even going to use it themselves?


mathew.
[ Who uses ISO-standard format, which ought to be the default. ]