All right, A duck thread! FYI, you need at least a pair to get ducklings. Dan Gahlinger wrote:

On 12 Jul 2012 at 22:41, Dan Gahlinger wrote: Seems to me that a Paradox would come in handy if you wanted a second opinion on your condition...

On 12 Jul 2012 at 21:18, Fred Cisin wrote: If I said they weren't the same, twice, it would be a paralyze. --Chuck

How many /ducks is that? Two? On 13/07/2012, at 10:41 AM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:

Well if there *are* two, then they are in a row, by definition. :) But if they are in a row, a pair of docks might be useful for the boats. On 13/07/2012, at 12:36 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

________________________________ From: Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> Paradox : Two sets of manuals. C: No. There's only one set. You moron you LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

________________________________ From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> FYI, I have the following versions scanned, but not postprocessed 3.0 3.5 4.0 Engine 2.0 C: Do you know how much idiocy you could have avoided by stating so sooner?! There are 7 different portions of the set (various thicknesses). You have them all? I'd hate to chuck them if you didn't. ?What's protprocessing? I'm too much of moron to know. In fact I'm so moronic I'm 2 morons simultaneously. Regardless of what you do to them post scanning, are they presently available?

________________________________ From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> I generally do not discuss things I've scanned, C: Wo, sorry. Didn't know it was Top Secret stuff. But then why in tarnation did you, and continue to??? I appear to have scanned 7 documents C: What does your appearance have to do w/any of this??? You all are crazy as heck you know. What I have are raw TIFF images. I have not converted them to pdf, nor have I run an OCR pass on them. C: Well if they're raw, they don't need any of that. What they need is to be tossed on the barby for a bit. ?The only reason I posted this at all was to state that they have been scanned. C: You had a plethora of reasons, the primary one is to make me a bit crazier, like the rest of your cohorts. Just admit it. ?Incidentally I do have the Mindset service manual as well as the marketing guide (whoopee!). I'll be *scanning* those bad boys before long. I don't intend to produce raw anything though. People get sick from raw things these days.

Indeed. -- Will

On 07/13/2012 11:43 AM, Al Kossow wrote: I've used Paradox, it was a fairly decent database and had good capability and an almost pascal like language called PAL that included data and data entry pictures. I have manuals for it still (V4 and V5 plus V5/win versions. I ahve to try running the dos and winders versions under Linux (dosemu and wine) someday. Allison

Sorry that classic pun was just too good to let pass by. decent database is open to interpretation, it didn't stick around long. I used to use the old foxpro before M$ got their mitts on it, and an old DOS database/RAD called Clarion. Only the DOS version was any good. speaking which, and somewhat on-topic, what IS a decent database/app designer these days? I mean in Clarion you could pop out little apps in less than 5 minutes without doing any coding at all, full database, indexes, cross-references, reports, lookups, you name it. i've looked at modern stuff like phpmyadmin and mysql and stuff, and while you can get the database structure down, there's no RAD (Rapid Application Development). the last one I saw like that was called 4G don't tell me delphi or idle or lazarus, it's just not that simple, clarion you just "paint the screen", place the fields, and voila. not even as difficult as OOP in turbo pascal (TTT was great). the old days of doing simple little knock-off programs in todays GUI world seem to be gone. Dan C:\, C:\DOS>, C:\DOS>RUN