To:    Bob Zale 
From:  Andras Hoeffken 
Ref: your mail dated Feb 25th - subj: "Re: PB/DLL "Edit" v5.00 d":
Hello Bob,
You wrote to *Thomas Gohel:*
BZ> My earlier reply inadvertantly sounded a whole lot more "aggressive"
BZ> than I had actually intended (it was 3:00 am), not to mention that a
BZ> {smile} caption was filtered out, too.* Sorry.
I appreciate this comment of yours, your previous mail was harsh! 
Nevertheless, we here in Germany are surprised about the way, our 
comments concerning PB compilers have been treated in the last 
half year. I kept myself in the background until now, so I should 
introduce myself:
I am a "Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering" and run my 
own R&D office as a freelance. I program Industrial Measurement 
Systems since lots of years. - I know Thomas Gohel personally and 
informed Joseph Kirschbaum about this mail today by phone.
(Maybe you know me from my TSR tool PQSYNTAX - coloured syntax 
highlighting for the editors of PB or QB, written in ASM and C, 
very fast, lots of congratulations came from all over the world - 
but not any comment arrived from PB Inc.!)
Concerning the PowerBASIC fans there is a bigger group of commercial
users here, however, in the smaller group of hobby programmers you 
find some very good ones, too,
 *and Thomas Gohel certainly is one of that excellent programmers*
He had put much energy and effort to activate and moderate the 
Fido areas BASIC.GER and POWERBASIC.GER and has pushed forward an 
own BASIC file network named BDN (Basic Developers Network).
Unfortunately Thomas had the chance to learn the English Language 
only rather late; and although he made a huge progress in doing 
this, he has not yet the technical vocabulary to explain certain 
problems enough in detail. Thus, in contradiction to his engagement
for PB, he was misunderstood, especially with respect to his 
English version of our German PBFAQ (parts of it were written by 
myself).
I think you and Dave Navarro should more rely on the positive 
motivation of Thomas even if he took one paragraph in his PBFAQ to 
describe PB compiler errors. How, if not by deep practical 
experience would someone be able to do this?
We should make better friends in the future and forget the mail
struggles of the past !! - I try to contribute to this by 
dedicating my very special program WIN95SPY.BAS to you, Bob. See 
the corresponding 3 mails of mine :-))))
BZ> Regardless, if you will email me very specific instructions and a sample
BZ> text file, we'll either correct it or show you your problem.* But
BZ> without your help, we really can't do anything to help as we see no
BZ> error at all here.* Thanks.
BZ> Bob Zale
BZ> PowerBASIC Inc.
I'll detail this in the next mail
Andras Hoeffken
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PS: (as Dave Navarro sometimes is in doubt if we have licenses)
in Germany I licensed:
  PB    Vs. 3.00c, Ser. No. PB 3000042769, incl. upgrade to vs 3.20
  PBDLL Vs. 1.5    Ser. No. 510127409
  PBDLL Vs. 2.0    Ser. No. 511400164
  PBDLL Vs. 5.0    Ser. No. 511900334
for my 2nd computer I licensed directly in the US:
  PB Vs. 3.00c,  Ser. No. 110146234, upgraded to PB 3.20 Ser. No. 120317516
(upgrade done for me by my friend "David Burkhart" 09/15/95 directly at PB 
Inc)
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