KR> ApdTerminal1.SetFocus;
 KR> end;

 KR> end.

 KR> thats it, it took all of an hour to write, it does ansi
 KR> emulation, auto dialling, auto zmodem download, and has dcd,
 KR> cts, rxd, and txd "lights" on the form. thats what i reckon is
 KR> fruitful activity.

  I've got one called Telix that is even smaller. ROFL!

  If I were writing for money like Brenton does selling a program in
which comms is a small part, then your approach is the only sensible
one... but what do you learn from it?

 KR> fiddling around with the works when you dont need to reminds me
 KR> of when i was a kid and a member of a model aeroplane club.
 KR> there was a sub culture there that just played with engines, i
 KR> suppose that they had fun, but they had lost sight of what it
 KR> was that they set out to acheive, they never built or flew
 KR> models, just played with their engines.

  Henry Ford started that way...

 KR> i know that i wont write better vcls than most of the good ones
 KR> on the market.

  Oh, well... some of us are just born stupid, I guess. Why the hell
do you see yourself as less skilled than the fuckwits writing VCLs?

 KR> if you are filling in the days before death, fine, if you are
 KR> trying to acheive something, then it is so easy to distract
 KR> yourself to total oblivion. 

  I am having what is known in the trade as fun. The reason I retired
was to be able to do *exactly* what I wanted to do, and htis is it. If
I don't like it I stop.

  I suppose I could find a cure for cancer... or win a Noble Prize or
save the fucking environment or breed more children to overpopulate
the world but I really don't give a shit about that, so I won't.

  ROFL!! Achieve something! No one ever achieves anyhthing! Haven't
you worked that out yet? If you honestly think you achieve things in
this life I advise you never to sit down and make yourself a list of
the things you achieved....
Regards,
Bob
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