> Congratulations on your promotion to co-moderator of our
 > humble echo.
Thanks.  This place seems to have that small, easy-going atmosphere which I 
really like.
 > I thought I'd bring you up to speed as to what I've been up
 > to in PowerBASIC.
    
 > The $60,000 process of developing a language within a
 > language has given me a look into PowerBASIC, let me tell you! 
I don't doubt it!
 > It has also produced some useful code that I will soon be
 > releasing as a commercial PB library called "MondoLib for PB."
Sounds good -- when do you expect it'll be out?
 > NOT be a huge Hanlin-like collection of routines.
Tom is good for that sort of thing isn't he %^)
 > I've also been considering writing a book on advanced PB
 > programming, but I don't know how big a base there is with PB,
 > so I don't know that that would be profitable.
You might want to consider an overall PB book.  Something that goes from the 
basics up through advanced stuff.  Something like Tom Swan's Mastering Turbo 
Pascal.
 > Now, how about you?  What have YOU been up to?  Do you still
 > work for the TELIX people?
Well I went to work for the Telix guys and picked up Pascal while I was 
working with them.  After spending a year in-house with them I moved back 
home with my family and continued to do support for them. Earlier this year 
they decided they wanted all support folks in house and since I didn't move 
back they let me go %^(.  I'm now working for an ISP and am learning all 
sorts of stuff about unix, etc.
I've written a few utilities for work so far and will soon rewrite our 
billing program which is written in QB and has lots of goto's %^). I'll 
convert that over to PB.
What I'd like write is a program which automates the process of getting my 
fido mail.  I have the mail delivered to our server at hom.net and then I 
call in and download it with a Telix script.  What I'd like to do is write my 
own little comm program which calls, logs into our server, ftp's the new mail 
and then downloads it from our server to my PC.  If I can find a PB lib that 
supports Zmodem I'll use that -- otherwise I'll write it in Pascal.
So that should about bring us up to speed %^) -- on with the programming!
Take Care, Zack Jones
zack@hom.net
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