It was literally criminal to not continue a separate branch from Microsoft for VB 6.0. I would bet there remains still a substantial footprint of companies running on it as their UI.
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 9:34:22 AM UTC-4 Karen Tellef wrote: > Funny guy, Bruce!!! Actually I am a compulsive organizer, I'm not happy > unless at some point during the day I have thrown something out, or > recycled or donated it. At some point my house is going to look like an > interrogation room. But I am guilty of having a "computer junk" pile that > is bigger than necessary (but luckily hidden so that I never see it, which > is the problem actually). I carefully looked thru your list, and I never > had any of those things. I am still hanging on to the CDs I have for > Visual Basic 6.0, my favorite (and last) version > > However, you made me look in my "software box". I still have floppies for > RBase 5.5 and 6.0, a floppy with "DOS 4GW files" (or so the label > says...) 26 floppies in all. I guess those can go in the trash? > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Chitiea <rby...@safesectors.com> > To: rba...@googlegroups.com <rba...@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2020 4:42 pm > Subject: Re[2]: [RBASE-L] - Crystal Reports & R:BASE Extreme X.5 > > Karen: > > Are you one of them hi-tech cat ladies, sidling between those tottering > stacks of twine-bound Multimate, Revelation, VisiCalc, Lotus Notes, > FoxPro, OS2, DB2, CP/M, WordStar, APL, SQL Server v4.5, NT4, PowerBuilder, > Ventura Publisher, UCSD p-System and WATFIV documentation which frame > that skinny canyon between the front door and Kittys' food bowls next to > the fridge? Got any spare DOOM floppies laying around? Thanks in advance! > > Bruce > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "'Karen Tellef' via RBASE-L" <rba...@googlegroups.com> > To: "rba...@googlegroups.com" <rba...@googlegroups.com> > Sent: 10/1/2020 2:12:01 PM > Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Crystal Reports & R:BASE Extreme X.5 > > Javier: Funny you mention that. A couple months ago on one of my > periodic purges of office papers, I ran across my Crystal Reports > instruction manual that came with that old RBase for Windows! I had > forgotten using that as the report writer, that was a pretty powerful > little piece of software! And taped inside were my little floppies. > Don't remember the virus issue. Floppies got tossed, manual went into the > recycle pile. I put only one of my clients on version 5.? I wasn't real > impressed with that early version and luckily waited around for 6! > > Karen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: javier....@vtgonline.com > To: rba...@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thu, Oct 1, 2020 3:05 pm > Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Crystal Reports & R:BASE Extreme X.5 > > Paul, > > I believe you would have to access the R:Base database from Crystal via > ODBC/Oterro and it should work OK…at least in theory, and you can start > Crystal from within an R:Base application, I do this with other > applications. > As a side note, the first version of R:Base for Window, version 5 > something, included Crystal Reports as the report writer. The distributions > disks also included a virus and we were quickly notified and send > replacement floppies. If I recall correctly, this might have been the last > version for Microrim/Abacus before RBTI took over. > > Javier, > > Javier Valencia, PE > javier....@vtgonline.com > O: 913-829-0888 <(913)%20829-0888> > C: 913-915-3137 <(913)%20915-3137> > > *From:* rba...@googlegroups.com [mailto:rba...@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *pa...@buckleyandassoc.com > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2020 3:53 PM > *To:* rba...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [RBASE-L] - Crystal Reports & R:BASE Extreme X.5 > > Good afternoon, > > I’m running the latest update of eXtreme X.5, does anyone know if I can > print a report created in Crystal Reports from inside an R:BASE > application? 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