RE: Green screen - it's time is over/CODE/400

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jt:

On Wed, 14 November 2001, "jt" wrote:

> I NEVER got the verify to work, unless it didn't reference any DB files.

I never had any problem with verify after the first few times some five years 
ago or so. Once I get the comm working, etc., no more problem. Can't recall 
what fixed 'verify' in particular though. (Actually, I can't remember it having 
a problem; but there were _lots_ of problems early on, both under OS/2 and 
Windows, for me.)

> When you know something like the back of your hand, like SEU, AND you can do
> it with one hand tied behind your back (and I've had to do that), AND you
> have to take the triage approach to self-education...  What you're looking
> for is for CODE to have an option for an IDENTICAL look-and-feel as SEU.

CODE does have an SEU-workalike option that brings familiarity. It isn't 
"IDENTICAL" of course, but the differences begin to come down to differences 
based on Windows vs 5250, e.g., resizing windows, etc. Such things as the same 
line commands (Copy, CCopy, Move, RePeat, etc.) work much the same in CODE when 
switched on. And I certainly wouldn't want CODE/400 screen designer to be 
"IDENTICAL" to SDA!

> So what we have here is an accounting problem.  CODE may not be a profit
> center.

For me, this is much closer to the problem. Put simply, I've never found a way 
to *BUY* CODE/400 -- I can only buy some other product that has CODE/400 thrown 
in for free. I don't understand that at all (unless I've missed a sales channel 
someplace).

> ===> What anyone sees in this Open Source movement...  well, it's simply
> beyond me...

Not me. Elsewhere you speak about lack of venture capital, but that's only true 
in the direct sense. An OSS package can be installed by any profitable company 
and then modified. Those modifications are covered by the funds that keep that 
company in business, and the modifications often are what get put back into the 
OSS package. I see much more to OSS; but I don't see lack of capital as a real 
issue.

Tom Liotta

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