RE: Great Free Software!

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 13:55, David.X.Kahn@gsk.com wrote:
> Reeve wrote:
>
> > Well, not really...the outfit's off my list forever;
> > that means they're off my customers' lists too.
>
> The pity of it is that the software itself may actually be reasonable. The
> developers do a nice job, then some idiot in marketing pulls a stupid stunt
> like this and shreds their credibility.
>
> Dave...

They appear to have done a similar trick on comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc too.
There were a number of 'glowing testimonials' with a fair bit of mutual
backslapping going on. Not very convincing...

I also think the comparison with Brad's SPLTOOL is off base too, as that
is a native AS/400 solution for *SCS to .pdf with email, and not costing
much more than free anyway. If I wanted a free solution that was PC
based I'd just hook up a Linux box which comes with a host of postscript
& pdf conversion tools and control it through RUNRMTCMD. You can even
convert the other way too - pdf to text :)

Regards, Martin
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