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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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                • L Lost User

                  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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                    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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                        • H H Brydon

                          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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                          pah. They're for wimps. Surely you meant this[^]

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