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Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro 1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:56:45 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro
1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)

Why did you even come up with that idea?
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On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8:34:29 PM UTC-4, JJ wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:56:45 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro 1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)

Why did you even come up with that idea?

Because I found 4Mat online and created a utility called CFloppy to compress floppies using JAM. :)
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 07:34:02 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:56:45 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS Pro
1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)

Why did you even come up with that idea?

YBT.


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On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 10:11:53 PM UTC-4, T. Ment wrote:

YBT.

What's YBT?
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 02:11:52 GMT, T. Ment <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 07:34:02 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:56:45 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:

Should I? Would anybody out there use it? I can create it in VBDOS
Pro 1.0 and upload it as public domain. :)

Why did you even come up with that idea?

YBT.

I don't think so; just living in the past, (but hey we're posting in this
NG!)


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Okay. :(
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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 08:40:44 -0000 (UTC), Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:

Why did you even come up with that idea?

YBT.

I don't think so; just living in the past

A retro hobby is worthwhile, if it teaches you something useful. Like
Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, C, Assembly, i.e., mainstream computer science material.

VBDOS Pro does not qualify.

Do something worthwhile. Learn assembly. Disassemble old shareware to
reverse engineer it. Fix the bugs. There's an endless supply of bugs to
fix in old software.


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On 4/14/19 9:41 AM, T. Ment wrote:

A retro hobby is worthwhile, if it teaches you something useful. Like Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, C, Assembly, i.e., mainstream computer science material.

I largely agree. Substitute "something you want to learn" in place of "useful" and I completely agree.

Something doesn't /need/ to be "useful" to have "value".

VBDOS Pro does not qualify.

VBDOS may not be /teach/ something useful. But it may /do/ something
useful.

Do something worthwhile. Learn assembly. Disassemble old shareware to reverse engineer it. Fix the bugs. There's an endless supply of bugs to
fix in old software.

If Harry wants to use VBDOS to create an interface / wrapper for
something he uses (2MF) to make his use thereof easier, well in my book, that's useful.

Or if the act of creating said interface / wrapper he learns more about
2MF, then VBDOS did something useful. Even if it wasn't /teaching/
something about itself.

Harry has sufficiently demonstrated that he wants to do some things that
I question the usefulness of. But, he wants to do them, and asks
questions. If I can answer, who am I to judge how useful the
information is to someone else?

We each blaze our own path. Some of our paths are significantly
different than other people's paths. So what.



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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 11:22:53 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:

Harry has sufficiently demonstrated that he wants to do some things
that I question the usefulness of. But, he wants to do them, and asks questions

Some people just like to be annoying. He can go bother some atheists.
They deserve it.


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On 4/14/19 11:45 AM, T. Ment wrote:

Some people just like to be annoying.

Yes, some people do. In my experience, most do not.

He can go bother some atheists.

He's not bothering me. In fact, I find what he's doing mildly
interesting if not entertaining.

They deserve it.

I disagree.



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On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:56:53 GMT, Grant Taylor
<[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/14/19 11:45 AM, T. Ment wrote:

Some people just like to be annoying.

Yes, some people do. In my experience, most do not.

He can go bother some atheists.

He's not bothering me. In fact, I find what he's doing mildly
interesting if not entertaining.

They deserve it.

I disagree.

Careful! this is a classic troll move.




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On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:50:45 -0000 (UTC), Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:

Careful! this is a classic troll move.

Atheists, and Harry, are annoying. They should meet. If that's trolling,
maybe atheists are too sensitive and doubt themselves. I'm not trying to
start an argument. Take it like a man and move on.


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