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  • Subject: Re: AS/400 shareware/utilities - was RE: File editor Freeware
  • From: "Nelson C. Smith" <ncsmith@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:58:51 -0400

Speaking of shareware and for-profit utilities, whatever happened to the big
explosion of service programs that we were going to see after ILE came in?
In the S/34/36 days, there were many useful assembler routines available as
shareware or for sale at reasonable prices, but I haven't seen any service
program advertised.


>Hopefully one day shareware will be big in the AS/400
>industry as it is with PCs.  The more people writing solutions to problems
>the better off we will all be.
>
>I've heard both sides of the story on this one.  Some folks claim to be too
>busy to write utilities, and others "just write it themselves".
>
>Bradley V. Stone
>BVS/Tools
>http://www.bvstools.com


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