Hi Brenton,
            I have just realised what Telix is: a pretty face and
bugger all else. I've got my VB dialler working, and all I need to
write a VB Telix is ZModem and a user interface. This is pathetic! I
suddenly understand why VB has people quacking like ducks... most of
these bloody programs are just a pretty face.

  I found a funny example of VB gone made this morning...

  There is a disc-copy program called QCopy written by a German
bastard named Feldmuller (obviously an ex-member of the SS). It is a
little ripper! It'll copy anything to anything, across formats, and it
only copies the used parts of discs, nealty apcking it all up on the
new disc. It's so fast I use it to compress floppies.

  He gets at the hardware itself to make it fast, and unfortunately,
every so often it fucks up and locks the floppy drive so you have to
reboot. Even so, I use it all the time. It;'s worth the occasional
stuffup, and I've been waiting for Herr Feldmuller to write version
2.0.

  This morning I found the Windows version of the BBS. Oh, joy! O
great and wonderful Ba'al! I shoukd have known better.

  Herr Feldmuller's 25K QCopy DOS program has grown a little in VB. He
uses three DLL's totalling 320K, and the EXE is another 350K. ROFL!!!
A simple diskcopy program takes 670K of code! ROFL!!! The installer
program is 120K! 

... fx: bursts into hysterical weeping

  I dod't bother trying it...

Regards,
Bob
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