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echo: foxpro
to: WIM DE LANGE
from: DAVID POWELL
date: 1997-03-17 23:24:00
subject: FoxBASE programs...

Hi Wim:
 MF> Thanks.  I checked out the magazine, but it'd be cheaper for us
 MF> to rewrite the required code.
 WdL> I'm not sure about this sort of reasoning. I also said that I never 
have 
 WdL> need of such an utility, until the week that I was 
 WdL> working on some source code at home, took the compiled 
 WdL> code with me to the company, installed it, and forgot 
 WdL> to backup the source (quit a lot of changes I made). 
 WdL> And within a week, my harddisk crashed!! The only way 
 WdL> (and cheapest one) was to decompile the code and copy 
 WdL> the changed progams (comments are lost, but it was 
 WdL> cheaper).
Amen!  Of course, you remember to make backups now, too, right?
Comments are valuable, too.  A good example, Wim.
David in Dallas.
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