Everyone? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrey Fyodorov Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:25 PM To: Exchange Discussions
Did it have any security? And everyone says Microsoft has too many holes -----Original Message----- From: Dupler, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:36 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: The SEC is killing me. Me too. It was an amazing tool. I did a lot of programming in both Smartware and Smartware II as well. I remember one time I had a requirement to make the database in 3.3 do something that in theory it could not. So I used the macro language to write the code from scratch and generate screens that looked like Smart itself including the menus and commands , thus giving the illusion that Smart had suddenly gotten some new functionality. It was really quick and easy to do, since any command could be linked back to itself, and module linking effectively made the nesting levels unlimited. It was an amazingly powerful environment. Office didn't really begin to come close to it until Office 95, but even the XP version still can't do some of the things that Smartware II could do, which is probably a good thing. A Smartware II program could rewrite the contents of the ROM BIOS, or write directly to things like the disk controller's controls, flip bits on the NIC and so on. In a Netware environment it could do all of this across multiple machines and even retrieve the values of any address using a pair of linked macros. You could write a help center program, complete with take over or merely screen replication tools. It was bad. -----Original Message----- From: Hurst, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:49 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: The SEC is killing me. Craig, You remembered Smartware and Smartware II (or was that Smartware plus a bit), like that product as it was one of the first. Earned me £££'s doing macros work. Loved it for that. Cheers Paul Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone wants one but not yours _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
