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  • Osiris
    #1

    CScape, legacy code

    Back in the 1990's there was a library on the market for building
    'forms' in the MSDOS environment. With theis toolset, you could build
    userfriendly I/O routines with input/output fiields with validation ,
    choice-lists etc.
    Does it still exist ? anyone has it out there ? I would like to
    compile some legacy code again, and need this product, named CSCAPE

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    • Charlton Wilbur
      #2
      Re: CScape, legacy code

      >>>>"O" == Osiris <nono@hotmail.c omwrites:

      ODoes it still exist ? anyone has it out there ? I would like to
      Ocompile some legacy code again, and need this product, named
      OCSCAPE

      This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the answers to
      your question.

      Charlton


      --
      Charlton Wilbur
      cwilbur@chromat ico.net

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        • Osiris
          #3
          Re: CScape, legacy code

          On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
          <cwilbur@chroma tico.netwrote:
          >>>>>"O" == Osiris <nono@hotmail.c omwrites:
          >
          ODoes it still exist ? anyone has it out there ? I would like to
          Ocompile some legacy code again, and need this product, named
          OCSCAPE
          >
          >This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the answers to
          >your question.
          >
          >Charlton
          Google probably does know, only it cannot tell me: 'cscape' is a name
          that is used for a lot of products, services, companies etc. So it is
          not an easy task to weed out the google responses.

          Using this group of C-programmers for my question might narrow my
          search domain considerably.

          A search ENGINE is not enough, sometimes I need access not only to
          information and data, sometimes I need access to filtered and
          condensed and lived-through KNOWLEDGE.

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            • Richard Heathfield
              #4
              Re: CScape, legacy code

              Osiris said:
              On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
              >>
              >>This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the answers to
              >>your question.
              (No, Charlton, it doesn't.)

              <snip>
              A search ENGINE is not enough, sometimes I need access not only to
              information and data, sometimes I need access to filtered and
              condensed and lived-through KNOWLEDGE.
              Hear hear. Google can tell you what's there, but it can't tell you how
              good it is, how relevant to you, how important, how broken, etc. For
              that, you need people, not programs.

              --
              Richard Heathfield
              "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
              http://www.cpax.org.uk

              email: rjh at the above domain, - www.

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                • Charlton Wilbur
                  #5
                  Re: CScape, legacy code

                  >>>>"RH" == Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrites:

                  RHOsiris said:
                  >On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                  >> This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the
                  >>answers to your question.
                  RH(No, Charlton, it doesn't.)

                  Oddly enough, when I searched for 'cscape text window library' I found
                  the name of the company that produced C-Scape, and when I searched for
                  the name of the company, I found out the current status of the company
                  and the current availability of the library. Thus, from his original
                  post:
                  >>>>"O" == Osiris <nono@hotmail.c omwrites:
                  ODoes it still exist ? anyone has it out there ? I would like to
                  Ocompile some legacy code again, and need this product, named
                  OCSCAPE

                  The answers are, well, easy enough for him to figure out, now that
                  I've outlined the keywords to search for and the method to use.

                  RHHear hear. Google can tell you what's there, but it can't tell
                  RHyou how good it is, how relevant to you, how important, how
                  RHbroken, etc. For that, you need people, not programs.

                  But the information indexed by Google is more than sufficient to
                  answer the questions he actually asked. If he had meant to ask
                  different questions, he ought to have done so.

                  Charlton


                  --
                  Charlton Wilbur
                  cwilbur@chromat ico.net

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                    • Richard Heathfield
                      #6
                      Re: CScape, legacy code

                      Charlton Wilbur said:
                      >>>>>"RH" == Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrites:
                      >
                      RHOsiris said:
                      >On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                      >
                      >> This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the
                      >>answers to your question.
                      >
                      RH(No, Charlton, it doesn't.)
                      >
                      Oddly enough, when I searched for 'cscape text window library' I found
                      the name of the company that produced C-Scape, and when I searched for
                      the name of the company, I found out the current status of the company
                      and the current availability of the library.
                      Nevertheless, Google didn't know this. All it knew is that a Web page
                      existed that matched your search requirements. It didn't know what you
                      hoped to gain by your search. As it turns out, you struck lucky.

                      To send people to Google is generally a bad idea, even though it can
                      work out all right on occasion.

                      --
                      Richard Heathfield
                      "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
                      http://www.cpax.org.uk

                      email: rjh at the above domain, - www.

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                        • Osiris
                          #7
                          Re: CScape, legacy code

                          On 18 May 2007 10:35:16 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                          <cwilbur@chroma tico.netwrote:
                          >>>>>"RH" == Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrites:
                          >
                          RHOsiris said:
                          >On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                          >
                          >> This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the
                          >>answers to your question.
                          >
                          RH(No, Charlton, it doesn't.)
                          >
                          >Oddly enough, when I searched for 'cscape text window library' I found
                          >the name of the company that produced C-Scape, and when I searched for
                          >the name of the company, I found out the current status of the company
                          >and the current availability of the library. Thus, from his original
                          >post:
                          >
                          brilliant ! those search terms give the company indeed: Liant. I
                          totally forgot that name.

                          Shows that one limitation with Google search engine: you *must* have
                          the right search terms. If not: no go.


                          thnx

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                            • Barry
                              #8
                              Re: CScape, legacy code


                              "Osiris" <nono@hotmail.c omwrote in message
                              news:c9as43d9tf unnfjt1ssinq0sq ra24c2pas@4ax.c om...
                              On 18 May 2007 10:35:16 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                              <cwilbur@chroma tico.netwrote:
                              >
                              >>>>>>"RH" == Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrites:
                              >>
                              > RHOsiris said:
                              > >On 17 May 2007 17:13:52 -0400, Charlton Wilbur
                              >>
                              > >> This is a newsgroup, not a search engine. Google knows the
                              > >>answers to your question.
                              >>
                              > RH(No, Charlton, it doesn't.)
                              >>
                              >>Oddly enough, when I searched for 'cscape text window library' I found
                              >>the name of the company that produced C-Scape, and when I searched for
                              >>the name of the company, I found out the current status of the company
                              >>and the current availability of the library. Thus, from his original
                              >>post:
                              >>
                              >
                              brilliant ! those search terms give the company indeed: Liant. I
                              totally forgot that name.
                              >
                              Shows that one limitation with Google search engine: you *must* have
                              the right search terms. If not: no go.
                              >
                              >
                              thnx
                              And thus, why the answer is 42.


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                                • Mark McIntyre
                                  #9
                                  Re: CScape, legacy code

                                  On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:27:27 +0000, in comp.lang.c , Richard
                                  Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrote:
                                  >Charlton Wilbur said:
                                  >
                                  >Oddly enough, when I searched for 'cscape text window library' I found
                                  >the name of the company that produced C-Scape, and when I searched for
                                  >the name of the company, I found out the current status of the company
                                  >and the current availability of the library.
                                  >
                                  >Nevertheless , Google didn't know this.
                                  Clearly google, being just a bunch of computers, doesn't /know/
                                  anything. It just returns results. Just as clearly, the PP wasn't
                                  implying that google's computers had crossed the threshold into
                                  conciousness, merely that a google search would turn up some useful
                                  looking hits. Why RJH feels this necessitates a series of sarcastic
                                  responses is unknown however.
                                  >To send people to Google is generally a bad idea, even though it can
                                  >work out all right on occasion.
                                  To tell people to search for knowledge is *never* a bad idea, even
                                  though they need assistance on occasion.




                                  --
                                  Mark McIntyre

                                  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
                                  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
                                  by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
                                  --Brian Kernighan

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