Weather it is worth while is for Corel to decide. I used Excell at work and the only good way to program it without visual basic is to record and save. It seems to work on visual basic. Excells visual basic commands are not well documented. I have a half dozen books on Excell macro commands but could never find anything on visual basic commands. Excell macro commands never seem to work as promised. Record and save is a really limited programming method. If you have ever used Excell and qpro you would appreciate how much better qpro is.Qpro has the "let" command which I use to have the macro rewrite itself while still running. It determines certains values as column length writes the need macro line to fit the need. Something I could never do with Excell.
DS On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 15:51:08 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > Yes I would purchase their updates; I already have > > most of their stuff and use.it. They were a cut above > > the rest of the dos software and I think they still > > have users out there. I have MS Word 6 for dos; > > what a real piece of junk.. > > I know *you* would purchase updates. I just don't think the market > is > big enough to make it worth *making* updates to the DOS apps. The > sales of updates wouldn't cover a fraction of the costs of making > them, let alone make actual money, > > > I wouldn't expect big dos sales but I think their fans > > would be after it but not big time. > > I'd hardly expect *any* DOS sales. Who would *buy* it? > > Such things are only useful to you if you have a working DOS system > where you can run them native, or if you run them in some sort of > virtual machine like VdosPlus. > > But if you need a spreadsheet at all, you run Excel under Windows, > or > Open Office/Libre Office Calc under Linux, OS/X or Windows, or a > standalone cross platform spreadsheet like Gnumeric, or you work > online through something like Google Sheets. (And *all* of the > non-Excel solutions above can read and write Excel format > worksheets. > Like it or not, Excel is the standard everyone must adhere to.) > > > Wordperfert 6.2 had alot of advanced features that > > you wouldn't expect to see in dos like the matheditor > > And Windows programs also have such features, so you don't need to > run > WP 6.2 to get them. > > > I use qpro alot; I like to tease my brother in law > > that I use turbodos for taxes He's like you only wants > > the latest MS junk. > > No, I don't just want the latest MS junk. You obviously haven't > been > paying attention when I talk about what I run here. I have an older > version of MS Office, but the only component I use is Publisher for > the odd DTP project, because I know how to make it do what I want. > For WP, spreadsheets and the like, I use Libre Office, and some > stuff > happens online with Google Docs/Sheets. (In those instances, I am > collaborating with others, and we need access to the same files.) > > I still have some ancient DOS stuff I run under emulation, but > that's > a hobby thing done for fun. I do not and *cannot* use DOS as my > production OS and DOS apps as my main applications. To much of what > I > do can't be *done* under DOS. > > If you love QPro, fine. If you can still use a DOS system and DOS > applications to do what you need to do, more power to you. But if > you > can, you are one of a *very* small number of people. The rest of us > cannot. And if you think there are a whole lot of people Just Like > You who can (or *want* to) do everything in DOS - enough to make it > worth while to maintain and sell DOS programs - I fear you are > living > in a dream world. The rest of the world has moved on. > > > DS > ______ > Dennis > .. > > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:48:13 -0400 dmccunney > <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > > writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner > <sunbeam...@juno.com> > >> wrote: > >> > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but > >> > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. > >> > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you > >> > have a million downloads they may feel there is once > >> > again a viable market for their product and will sell > >> > and upgrade their dos line. I thing that Corel still has > >> > alot of dos fans out there. I think alot of people miss > >> > the simplicity and practicality of dos. Don't expect the > >> > world to be completely free. DOS isn't worth much > >> > without high quality software to run on it > >> > >> I wouldn't expect release of source, either, though it would be > >> nice. > >> But neither would I expect release for sale. Who would *buy* it? > >> DOS > >> has been dead for years, and I doubt there would be enough paying > >> customers to make sales worth the while. Actually *selling* > stuff > >> involves costs to be *able* to sell it, and unless you are > confident > >> of a decent sales volume, it's not worth doing. > >> > >> Yes, FreeDOS 1.1 has gotten a million downloads, but that, by > >> itself, > >> is meaningless. How many of the downloaders actually installed > it, > >> and on what? How many are actually using it, and what are they > >> doing > >> with it if they are? (My own bet is that most actually using it > are > >> doing do to play old DOS games *native*, not use stuff like WP or > >> QPro.) > >> > >> Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the > >> former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them > as > >> unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their > site. > >> There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but making it > >> available was a nice gesture and good publicity for the Windows > >> based > >> stuff they could *sell*. > >> > >> > cheers > >> > DS. > >> ______ > >> Dennis > >> > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- > >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Freedos-user mailing list > >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >> > > > > > > ******************************************************>>>> > > From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry > > http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 > > *******************************************************>>>> > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > How To "Remove" Dark Spots > > Gundry MD > > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5adb825ff054f25f683dst02duc > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > -- > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Doctor Warns: Stop Eating This Vegetable Immediately Gundry MD http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5adbab1e9363a2b1e158est03duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
