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system: You are Rombout De Backer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Problemd with Dragging and Dropping -- E13:57:0005/11/96".

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assistant: For example, when I have a TDrawGrid (TestGrid) with the following handlers:
testgrid.onmousedown(..);
begin
  begindrag(true);
end;
testgrid.dragover(..);
begin
  accept := false;
end;
testgrid.enddrag(..);
begin
  if (target=nil) then caption := 'buggy..';
end;
probably i made a few misspells, but you understand what I mean. When I start
dragging (via mousdown) and I drag it over my testgrid (where I get the "YOU
MAY NOT DROP HERE" sign) and I drop it (by release the mouse button) then
when EndDrag is called the value of target is NOT nil, but has the value of
the dropped on object (here testgtid), whilst the testgrid didn't allow it to
be dropped, and so target should be NIL according to documentation.
This worked in Delphi 1.0.
If this is too vague I can compile a real example,
Thanks in advance,
Rombout/
system: You are Steve Batson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tommy Usher about "Pascal Books".

They wrote:
SB>TU> Well, "Teach Yourself Delphi 2.0 in 21 Days," looks good.  So far
SB>TU> (Day4) it is pretty much covering the basics of Pascal, which I
SB>TU> alreadyknow, though the refresher helps.  (It has been many years
SB>Well, I am pretty familiar with this one ;) I am looking for a detailed
SB>reference that covers the entire lanaguage better than the borland
TU> stuff...A
SB>Johnny 5 says, "More Input!".
TU> You know, I must apologize.  I did not make the connection between
TU> yourname, and the book....  Sorry about that. <g>  It is an excellent
TU> bookthough.

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assistant: No problem, thanks for the compliments. We are very happy with the results
and the feedback has been good. We hope it will help alot of people starting
out in Delphi. Even though it is a Delphi 2.0 book, much of it applies to
Delphi 1.0 as well...anyway, thanks again.
Steve
system: You are Derek Benner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Batson about "Pascal Books".

They wrote:
SB> Getting back on topic here, have you or anyone seen the Delphi
SB> Magazine? I am wondering how it compares to The Delphi Informant. I
SB> like the informant and am dropping the Cobb Group's Delphi Journal.

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assistant: No, I haven't seen the 'Delphi Magazine', but I once read 'The Delphi
Informant.'  I've got to admit that its subscription rate is too high.  Maybe
that's why they don't go with stocking the mag on the rack at Tower, B & N or
WaldenBooks.  As for the Cobb Group's newsletter, if I wanted to be ripped
off, I'd just give money to the Church of Scientology.
Derek
system: You are Joseph Pribulick, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Scirocco about "DLL speed".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Mike Scirocco to All <=-
MS> Someone in this echo posted that true compiled code ran 10-20 times as
MS> fast as VB p-code. I bought Microsoft Fortran 5.1 and wrote some DLL's
MS> which are not only compiled, but optimized for speed and looping, and
MS> they only ran 3 to 4 times as quickly as the p-code snail. There is
MS> quite a difference between 3-4 and 10-20. Anyone out there who _knows_
MS> about this care to comment?

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assistant: Were the DLL's running independently of your VB app, or
 were they running as subroutines called from your VB app.
 If called subroutines, then VB must still go through its
 interpreter for some things.
... Are you using Windows, or is that just an XT?
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system: You are Joseph Pribulick, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Batson about "Pascal Books".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Steve Batson to Derek Benner <=-
SB> Derek, thanks for the reply. I am more interested in a 3rd party
SB> reference. The Borland stuff is ok, but sometimes just doesn't have

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assistant: Hi Steve!
 I don't have an ObjectPascal book with good examples
 *specifically* for Delphi, but the ObjectPascal language
 hasn't changed significantly with Delphi and I am using
 several older ObjectPascal books with good examples.  Besides
 they're cheaper.
... I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]
system: You are Francois Piette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gerard Gerritsen about "Just asking...".

They wrote:
GG> At school we have a Delphi client/server version. Today I
GG> tried building a program ( had some problems with compiling because of
GG> the ridiciously low limits for storing data. )
GG> It was a simple form,
GG> with some italic text, dir box, calender, ok button really nothing
GG> special.But after compiling it was about 380Kb big ! Anybody knows how
GG> to reduce the size or is that normal ?

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assistant: Salut Gerard Gerritsen !
Dans un message de Gerard Gerritsen dat� du 06 May 96  17:23:11 il �tait dit:
Wich limits ? Do you use 32 bits version or are you stuck with old 16
bits code ?
When you'll have understood what is really does, you'll discover that
it is not too much. The form you designed has many feature you don't
need, but they are there.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Francois Piette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Piero Salandin about "Text printing in Delphi, any idea?".

They wrote:
PS> I'm trying to use Delphi to develop some
PS> applications that absolutely need to have the capability to drive
PS> whatever kind of printer just to print text in text mode, as you would
PS> do in any DOS application. This is due to printer speed needed and
PS> other reasons.So is there any kinda solution to do like a normal
PS> writeln (prn,'Hello');as I did in Pascal?

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assistant: Salut Piero Salandin !
Dans un message de Piero Salandin dat� du 06 May 96  01:12:24 il �tait dit:
Open the printer device like any other text file and use file I/O.
But this is generally a bad idea...
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Francois Piette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Giovanni Zanetti about "inifile".

They wrote:
GZ> has anyone a sample to better understand read/write to an
GZ> inifile on start/close application ?

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assistant: Salut Giovanni Zanetti !
Dans un message de Giovanni Zanetti dat� du 08 May 96  00:00:00 il �tait dit:
procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
var
  WinIni: TIniFile;
begin
  Canvas.TextOut(20, 10, 'DIVERS PARAMETRES WINDOWS');
  WinIni := TIniFile.Create('Win.Ini');
  with WinIni do
  begin
    Canvas.TextOut(10, 45, 'Epaisseur de bordure  = ' +
      IntToStr(ReadInteger('Windows', 'BorderWidth', -1)));
    Canvas.TextOut(10, 65, 'Espacement des ic�nes = ' +
       IntToStr(ReadInteger('Desktop', 'IconSpacing', -1)));
    Canvas.TextOut(10, 85, 'Granularit� de la grille = ' +
       IntToStr(ReadInteger('Desktop', 'GridGranularity', -1)));
    Canvas.TextOut(10, 105, 'Clignotement du curseur = ' +
       IntToStr(ReadInteger('Windows', 'CursorBlinkRate', -1)));
    Canvas.TextOut(10, 125, 'Vitesse du double clic = ' +
       IntToStr(ReadInteger('Windows', 'DoubleClickSpeed', -1)));
  end;
  WinIni.Free;
end;
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Francois Piette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Frank Malcolm about "Program manager".

They wrote:
FM> Does anyone have the full specs of the Program Manager DDE interface?

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assistant: Salut Frank Malcolm !
Dans un message de Frank Malcolm dat� du 08 May 96  06:59:04 il �tait dit:
You'll find it in the Windows 3.1 SDK, Programmer's Reference Volume
1: Overview, chapter 17 : Shell Dynamic DataExchange Interface.
You'll find this in paper form to be ordered from Microsoft or in
electronic form on CDROM #1 of any Microsoft Developper Network
development library.
If you use Delphi 2, you'll find the information in the WIN 32 SDK, in
the Win32 Programmer's Reference, Overview, Windows Management, Shell
Feature, Shell Dynamic Data Exchange Interface. Also available on
paper from Microsoft Press or on the same CD as it 16 bits counter
part.
As I mentionned before, it is a must for any Windows programmer to
have a subscription to Microsoft Developper Network (at least Level
II). You'll get about 30 CDs every quarter, filled with all the SDK,
DDK and (Desktop) OS, knowledge base, driver library, technical
specifications, samples, and many more, from Microsoft.
But ok, if you only write a simple account application, you don't need
MSDN.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Bryan Thorell, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Click Events".

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assistant: Anyone know if you can capture a click event on a standard control (i.e.
listbox) if you create the listbox at run-time with the create method without
having to sub-class the component?
Bryan
system: You are Jorgen De Gier, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Matheas Manssen about "Colors of Mainmenu".

They wrote:
GW> Matheas Manssen mentioned this to All:
MM>> Is it somehow possible to change the colors of a mainmenu?
GW> Yes, from the Windows Control Panel.

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assistant: Hallo Matheas,
Gary Weinfurther schreef dit aan Matheas Manssen:
Or the SetSystemColors API function.
Toedeloe,
Jorgen de Gier
system: You are Jorgen De Gier, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "WInsock".

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assistant: Hallo All,
Has anybody done something with Winsock and Delphi? I've found winsock.pas
nd
winsock.inc and was hoping that I could do some socket programming with
Delphi(1.0). So far without success.
Does anybody know where to get more info about Delphi and Winsock?
Toedeloe,
Jorgen de Gier
system: You are Tommy Usher, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Scirocco about "DLL speed".

They wrote:
MS>I am currently working with VB. I unfortunately learned this p-code snail
MS>instead of a real compileable language like Delphi. While I am considering
MS>learning Delphi, right now I still need to keep the code flowing so I'm
MS>resorting to DLL's.
MS>Someone in this echo posted that true compiled code ran 10-20 times as
MS>as
MS>VB p-code. I bought Microsoft Fortran 5.1 and wrote some DLL's which are
MS>only compiled, but optimized for speed and looping, and they only ran 3 to
MS>times as quickly as the p-code snail. There is quite a difference between
MS>and 10-20. Anyone out there who _knows_ about this care to comment?

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assistant: For what it is worth, there are conversion programs for going from VB to
Delphi.  They start at about $80.
ast
not
4
3-
Well, I am not that familiar with MS FORTRAN 5.1, but keep in mind,
there are differences in languages that can affect performance.  I could
be wrong, but I doubt a program written in FORTRAN would run as fast as
a program written in C.  Of course, at the same time, it would depend on
the version of C, the version of FORTRAN, and very likely, the
programmer writing the program.  For example, some years back, I noticed
that a box drawing function in a program I was helping develop, seemed
awfully slow.  It was one of those little thing that just bugged me.
One day, I reached my limit, and I pulled the code and looked at it.  It
was a brute force method.  I wrote a version that used a different
approach, and it was considerably faster.  Same language.  But mine was
probably 10 times faster.
system: You are Tommy Usher, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ryan Potts about "delphi 1.0 question".

They wrote:
RP>Hello all,
RP>   Have developed some code in delphi 1.0.  The resulting EXE file runs
RP>fine on
RP>the machine I developed it on.  But if I take the same code to another
RP>windows
RP>machine that doesn't have delphi installed I get the following error:
RP>An Error occured while attempting to initialize the Borland Database
RP>What is needed on the non-delphi machine(s) in order for my code to work?
RP>What
RP>specific files?

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assistant: Engine.
Uh, somewhere in your manuals or online help files, there should be a
lists of redistributable files from the Borland Database Engine.  THOSE
are the files you need to use.
system: You are Christopher Di Armani, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ryan Potts about "delphi 1.0 question".

They wrote:
RP> An Error occured while attempting to initialize the Borland
RP> Database Engine.
RP> What is needed on the non-delphi machine(s) in order for my code
RP> to work?  What specific files?

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assistant: Hello Ryan!
12 May 96 00:56, Ryan Potts wrote to all:
You aren't saying, but I'm assuming this is a database application... so
you'd have to install the database engine onto the other machine before your
app will work.  The redistributable portion lives on the cdrom delphi comes
on.  Just
copy it onto two floopies, install it and your app ought to run just fine.
                        Christopher
system: You are Piero Salandin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Using Enter instead of Tab".

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assistant: Hallo, All!
Does anyone know How can I manage to use The Enter key aside of the Tab to
switch to the next Edit field, possibily without writing hundreds of code
lines each time?
Maybe I would need something like "hey, <sender>, when you get an Enter key
switch to the visible and enabled control next to you", but I dunna how to
make it.
Thanks a lot.
Ziaoziao.
    Piero.
    Sysop di Hobbiville
system: You are Bill Calvin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Justin Marquez about "screen "adjustability"".

They wrote:
JM>        I am developing an application on a system with a fairly high
JM> resolution video (1024x768).  When I test-ran the app on a std
JM> (640x480) VGA system, the windows were misplaced on the screen and
JM> some of the "label" fields in the windows had the text messed up.
JM> Additionally, a bit-map included in one window was clipped.
JM>        Is there a way to have the app to determine how to deal with
JM> different screen resolutions in effect at run-time?

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assistant: Hello Justin!
Replying to a message of Justin Marquez to Jeroen Pluimers:
    Borland has a file, LDELPHI.ZIP,  available on their WWW server.  This
file has
 answers to many DELPH questions, including yours.
    If you don't have access to the Internet, I can make the file available
 for freq.
    Let me know, if you need more help.    You can send me email to
calvin@vnet.net or
 via Fido at 1:379/13
Bye, Bill!
system: You are Justin Marquez, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Derek Benner about "DLL speed".

They wrote:
DB> Justin,
DB>
DB> If I remember correctly the '**' operator raises the number to the
DB> power of the second number, 2 to the 3rd power = '2**3' and 10 to the
DB> 5th power equals '10**5', am I right?  If so, just write a procedure
DB> using ln and exp to do such an algorithm.  If you're using FORTRAN, you
DB> probably better understand what that algorithm should look like than I
DB> would.  Just remember to write it so that it will support various data
DB> types.

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assistant: Everyone ALWAYS misses the point on this.  I *have* such a function, with
error checking, which I have used for years.  It would be much better if the
OPERATOR were built-in (like in FORTRAN).
   The self-written function works, but a function is much more cumbersome to
use in complex equations which may have quite a few such operations in just
one equation.
   Z := power(x,y)  works but definitely is uglier than Z = X**Y in how it
works.
Justin Marquez
Artichoke BBS, Houston, TX
system: You are Justin Marquez, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Dan Ugrin about "Dll speed".

They wrote:
JM>    If only DELPHI had a built-in operator which did what FORTRAN's
JM> "**" operator does! It would make engineering and scientific DELPHI
JM> programming easier and faster!
DU> Number**Power in Fortran translates to Exp(Ln(Number)*Power) in Pascal.

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assistant: Try that simple conversion on this real-world BASIC equation:
     RC = (RI ^ (NS - 1) * (PD / P(2 * NS - 1))) ^ (1 / NS)
 and see how it "reads"!
system: You are Francois Piette, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Muller about "DBComboLookUp".

They wrote:
MM> Hi,I'm just trying to get an up to date filled TDBComboLookup Box.The
MM> problem is :I've got a Table and a Datasource Component. When I insert
MM> a new Dataset, the new Dataset is inserted in the TDBComboLookup Box
MM> instantly but when I delete a Dataset with a Sql statment, the
MM> ComboBox isn't up to date automatically.How are the comands to Requery
MM> the Combobox ?

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assistant: Salut Michael M�ller !
Dans un message de Michael M�ller dat� du 13 May 96  15:17:00 il �tait dit:
Use the Refresh method.
Amiti�s,
{-Francois Piette-}
system: You are Bryan Smith, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Collis about "Help".

They wrote:
PC> I think the way Pascal handles text files could be better done.

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assistant: On 15 May 96 Peter Collis said to Tommy Usher...
What's the problem ?
system: You are Dan Ugrin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Hasan Kahveci about "Activemdichild".

They wrote:
HK> I am using Delphi 1.0 and I want to write a MDI application.
HK> in this application i cant control my child form.
HK> With ActiveMDIChild I can use TForm's methods(example:
HK>   ActiveMDIChild.Close;),
HK> but i can'u call my Forms methods( example:
HK>   ActiveMDIChild.MyProcedure(xx);).
HK> How can I call my child form procedure from MDIForm.

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assistant: You need to type cast ActiveMDIChild with the type name of your child
form.  If you child type name is TEditForm then the main form would
call methods in the child for by:
  (ActiveMDIChild as TEditForm).MethodName(parameters);
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dan
system: You are Steve Batson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Frank Malcolm about "Hint, hint...".

They wrote:
FM> How on earth do you show a hint for a menu item? They have the hint
FM> property, but not the ShowHint one! As they're not a TControl this is
FM> not surprising; what is surprising is that they have a Hint. How do
FM> youuse it?

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assistant: Put the text for your hint in the "Hint" property and set the ShowHint to
true. You can also set the Parent Form or Containers ShowHint property to
true if the controls ParentShowHint property is true (default).
This will turn on the ShowHint for all the components in the form or
container saving you time. Hope this helps.
Steve
system: You are Derek Benner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gerard Gerritsen about "Just asking...".

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assistant: Gerard,
From the looks of it, you need to go over to the network administrators and
kick a LOT of butt!  First, try to get them to share the drive/directory that
the Delphi executable is on so that you can NOT dump unnecessary info to your
(RAM?) drive.  Second, make sure that you've allocated enough resources on
your local machine to support D2 effectively.  (It's a real pig in 8 Meg of
RAM.  It really needs 16-24Meg RAM to run quickly and smoothly.)
Third, how about talking them into installing Delphi 2.0 directly on your own
system's drive and then just linking to the remote Interbase db?  That's
actually the best solution since you've then got all your tools locally
available.  Also, a DCL is a Delphi Compiled Library and is a form of DLL.
At present, Delphi IS configured to give you the best performance with the
least waste of space.  If you are running off of a 1.44Meg floppy, which it
sounds like, then you are in trouble  (That's if that's all the HD space they
are allocating to you, you might as well be trying to run Delphi from a
floppy for all the good it will do you.)
derek
system: You are Steve Batson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Delphi RAM Requirements".

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assistant: Hi All,
I was wondering what the smallest amount of memory anyone has run Delphi in
successfully. I have 16megs in my system and have not trouble, I know someone
that is only running with 8megs of RAM and said it ran at one time, but wont
now. Delphi 1.0 says it needs 6 megs, Windows runs marginally in 4 megs, so I
told him to get more memory. I haven't tinkered with it on a system less
memory. Any tips, tricks or feedback?
I told him since windows really wants at least 4, that only leaves 4 megs
free for Delphi give or take a bit.
Obviously he is riding on the edge, but wasnt thrilled to hear that since he
doesn't want to spend the money right now to upgrade. Again, any feedback
would be appreciated especially if we do some configuration changes to just
get him running again.
Steve