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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    Thinking about it, there were loads of 'em back in the DOS days: "BRIEF - the Programmer's Editor", "XTree Gold", "Norton Utilities" (before they were sold to Symantec), "MASM", ... all damn good.

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    MarkTJohnson
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    Oh YES! BRIEF was great. I liked PC Tools, it allowed me to have multiple desktops inside Windows for WorkGroups.

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    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

      Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

      Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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      Nagy Vilmos
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      VB6. Yea I know, but I used it from launch until at least 2010! Actually, I used VB from the initial release. \m/

      veni bibi saltavi

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      • B Bassam Abdul Baki

        Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

        Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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        Kevin Marois
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        My toothbrush. I really enjoy my new dentures :cool::cool:

        If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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        • B Bassam Abdul Baki

          Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

          Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          MS Access - it was a great tool in its day.

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          • B Bassam Abdul Baki

            Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

            Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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            Lost User
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            sed, emacs. Oh, and that old mechanical Hollerith card punch with the 4 x 3 keypad.

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            • B Bassam Abdul Baki

              Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

              Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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              Corporal Agarn
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              VEdit loved it. Now Notepad ++ does what I need.

              Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.

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              • C Corporal Agarn

                VEdit loved it. Now Notepad ++ does what I need.

                Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.

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                Bassam Abdul Baki
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                I've been an Ultraedit user since year one.

                Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                  Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                  Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                  Gary Wheeler
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                  ProComm[^]

                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                  • D den2k88

                    I used ACDSee95 because Win95 had no built-in image viewer :D

                    DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                    Lost User
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                    It did; it came with ms-paint. The reason those picture-viewers became so popular was "hands free slide shows".

                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                      Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                      Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                      Besinger
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                      I'm probably dating myself (again): anyone remember sidekick?

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                      • W W Balboos GHB

                        CHKDSK

                        Ravings en masse^

                        "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                        "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                        Forogar
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                        I still use that one.

                        - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Thinking about it, there were loads of 'em back in the DOS days: "BRIEF - the Programmer's Editor", "XTree Gold", "Norton Utilities" (before they were sold to Symantec), "MASM", ... all damn good.

                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                          Forogar
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                          I miss BRIEF, you could have all kinds of macros (written in a c-like script).

                          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                          • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                            Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                            Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                            kmoorevs
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                            WS FTP Pro - 16 bit version. When it became too much trouble to get it to run, I tried a few other FTP programs but found none that I liked. In the end I wrote my own. :)

                            "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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                            • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                              Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                              Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                              Lost User
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                              FoxPro for DOS PC Tools QEMM (Memory manager) 1dir+ (DOS Shell)

                              In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

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                              • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                                Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                                Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                                H Brydon
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                                Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                                Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using.

                                The [IBM 026 Keypunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch). Oh yeah the 029 as well...

                                I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

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                                • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                                  Old Tool OTD: Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using. QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.

                                  Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                                  parths
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                                  DOS Commander.

                                  "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman "Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." -Anon.

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                                    It did; it came with ms-paint. The reason those picture-viewers became so popular was "hands free slide shows".

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                                    den2k88
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                                    As far as I can recall it didn't read many format, including JPEG. I was fairly young and inexperienced at that time so I listened a lot to what others said - and they weren't experts, just tinkers.

                                    DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                                    • D den2k88

                                      As far as I can recall it didn't read many format, including JPEG. I was fairly young and inexperienced at that time so I listened a lot to what others said - and they weren't experts, just tinkers.

                                      DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                                      Lost User
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                                      It was updated (before Win98 came about) to include extra file-formats, yes.

                                      Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                                        It was updated (before Win98 came about) to include extra file-formats, yes.

                                        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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                                        den2k88
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                                        At that time I had the 27 floppies version ;P I couldn't install nor Plus! nor OSR/2 due to lack of CD reader. Came the CD came Win98 came the crashes with the screensaver; reverted but to NT4. Lasted until Win98 SE, then skipped everything until XP. On the oldest PC I installed Win Me and I'm one of the only three people satisfied with it.

                                        DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                                          At that time I had the 27 floppies version ;P I couldn't install nor Plus! nor OSR/2 due to lack of CD reader. Came the CD came Win98 came the crashes with the screensaver; reverted but to NT4. Lasted until Win98 SE, then skipped everything until XP. On the oldest PC I installed Win Me and I'm one of the only three people satisfied with it.

                                          DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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                                          Lost User
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                                          (A license for) Win ME was the only version of Windows that I actually paid for. I still regret that choice :)

                                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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