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M0CNL > TECH 23.05.06 02:57l 44 Lines 1603 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : BA0498M0CNL
Read: DL1LCA GUEST
Subj: Re: Preferred spreadsheet format?
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From: M0CNL@GB7COS.#31.GBR.EU
To : TECH@WW
G7RES WROTE:
>
> VK2ZRG:
>
>>But taking out the "Help" facility is a bit
>>mean spirited and, in my opinion, just plain stupid. It wasn't that there
>>was not enough space on the CD or anything; there was room for another 400 >MB
> or so. Anyway not
> having "Online Help" available, certainly helped me >to decide that I
> wouldn't use VB
>
> Yeah, I have to agree with you on that. To sell something as a learning
> edition and then not supply the help files is a contradiction in terms.
> And I guess the reason you can't make executables with it is so you can't
> make money from it.
I am not sure what version you are talking about here, but I still have an old
version 5 learning edition here, And that has got "online help" and included a
cd version of Mirosoft Press "Learn Visual Basic Now" and a "self paced CD-ROM
tutorial" which I cannot remember the name of at the moment.
Also I created quite a few EXE's with it, some of which I still have, which
were written back in 1999. I know this because a few weeks ago I had a need
for one of them (mostly out of nostalgia more than anything else, as I have
just upgraded to Visual studio 6 pro) and spent ages going through dozens of
old cd-r's trying to find it.
But then I suppose that this is the difference between a paid for version and
a freebee version out of the back of a book.
None of this is meant to be inflamatory in any way it's just that my
experience of this is different to what has been said.
./me stands back so as not to get burnt by the flames ;)
All the best
Paul
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