Subj : hello! :DD
To   : Ben Collver
From : AKAcastor
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 10:57:54

 BC> I used list.com hex dumps to reverse engineer the database format, &
 BC> the shareware Desmet-C PCC compiler to write a program to export the
 BC> data to plain text, which i imported into Paradox.  I remember using
 BC> Borland grep.exe and i also remember using list.com multi-file views
 BC> to flip back and forth between old/new code listings page by page to
 BC> spot differences.  I didn't have a diff command at that time.

LIST.COM!  Such a great text file viewer.  And - as I learned JUST NOW - it also has hex view!   Geez, I should have read the help screen before now, been using list.com for years and never realized that.

Thanks for the tip. :)


Chris/akacastor


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