Hi, Brenton.

BV> BL> The only bit missing is the MKS$ converter for the ndx files.
BV> BV> You could always tell Frank it is a new Keno algorithm :)
BV> BL> ROFL! It might just work... but he's pretty smart.

BV> I reckon you could sucker him in.

You will have now seen that he did. :-)

BV> BL> Every time I see Frank's work, I'm tempted to rush out and buy
BV> BL> Pascali but the $400 keeps stopping me. Actually, VB is pretty slick.

BV> Hmmm...I got the "junk fax" for Delphi this weekend. Delphi is the
BV> Turbo Pascal equivalent of VB and it is supposed to be a ball-tearer.

Yeah, I want it - how come you got that junk mail & I didn't?

BV> It claims to have all the nice parts of VB and it compiles to
BV> native code which screams. It could be worth a look, especially as
BV> some of the fastest and smoothest Windoze programs I have seen have
BV> turned out to be Turbo-Pascal creations. Delphi will initially have
BV> an RRP of $350 for the CD version. Upgrades from TP will RRP at $280

Hmmm, maybe it'll be cheaper for Borland Connection members.

BV> There aint much margin in anything nowadays but the dealer price
BV> will shave a few bucks off, if anyone is interested. Hey Frank, how
BV> many TP disks do you have ? The RRP will increase in 90 days to be $795

One full legal set for Dos, and one full legal set for Windows. Of
course I'm a bit wary about the initial release of any software, but
this one sounds *so* good.

BV> BL> I haven't looked at using DLLs yet, but I suspect that this will let
BV> BL> it do any bloody thing at all, if I ever get around to it.

BV> It isn't hard at all. All you need to do is to prototype the Function in
BV> the declaration section of GLOBAL.BAS, then you can call it just like any
BV> other function.

It's probably even easier to write the actual DLL in TP for Windows, I
might just make boB a DLL & send him the source to drool over.

Regards, FIM.

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