Subj : Re: hello! :DD
To   : Ben Collver
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 06:55 am

-=> Ben Collver wrote to Skylar <=-

 BC> I used list.com hex dumps to reverse engineer the database format, &
 BC> the shareware Desmet-C PCC compiler to write a program to export the
 BC> data to plain text, which i imported into Paradox.  I remember using
 BC> Borland grep.exe and i also remember using list.com multi-file views
 BC> to flip back and forth between old/new code listings page by page to
 BC> spot differences.  I didn't have a diff command at that time.

I remember collecting all sorts of *nix utilities for DOS, trying to
make my DOS machine look unix-ey, I don't recall how compatible they
were, but do recall using *nix find, cut, and grep.




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