RE: AS/400 shareware WAS New Opcodes

Buck,

No one wants to see the routines you use to update your AP or AR files or
change the shipping status of your orders.  The kind of code people want to
see is so generic that no one would know who's system it came from.

Bradley V. Stone
BVS/Tools
http://www.bvstools.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 2:29 PM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: AS/400 shareware WAS New Opcodes - %SETCELL
> 
> 
> My wife would absolutely kill me if I told her that I wanted to spend
> US$30/month on an AS/400 AND do "fun" programming in my 
> "spare time" after
> working 60 hours a week.  Maybe I need a job with a big 
> bureaucracy where I
> can work my 7.5 hours a day and go home to play with the kids 
> before dinner
> and with the AS/400 after.
> 
> I have been known to post code snippets, but I am not sure 
> how well they are
> received, or if they are even useful.  Several posters have 
> asked for a
> central repository and several folks are hosting space.  All 
> in all, it
> looks like we've started down the shareware/freeware road.  
> The big thing
> for me is that if I post "real production" code, I'm fired.  
> We're in a
> pretty cutthroat business, and consider our software to be 
> very proprietary.
> That means that I often keep my original boilerplate "proof 
> of concept" code
> to hand out, yet it isn't really even freeware quality.
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Aptis; Albany, NY
> mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       David Shea 
> > Sent:       Thursday, September 09, 1999 2:25 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL
> > 
> > But you can get at somebody else's AS400 from home over the 
> internet for
> > short money.
> > 
> > I think this has been brought up before on this thread, but 
> at the risk of
> > beating a dead horse... check out 
> http://www.timeshare400.com .  $30/month
> > for an individual 
> account and you can get access to a brand new v4r4 box
> > with RPG, Cobol, C, SQL, Query, Java, SDK, CD image 
> creation... all the
> > fun
> > toys.  You develop it, and there's no question that you own it.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Klement <infosys@klements.com>
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> > Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL
> > 
> > 
> > >Jim,
> > >     I think the reason that its not going to happen for 
> us, (and this
> > >has now been stated many times) is simply that we don't 
> have AS/400's
> > >at home!
> > >
> > >I can't, without huge sacrifices, anyway, get an AS/400 to do this
> > >stuff at home.
> > 
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