I'm offering to revive dataperfect.nl
I live in .nl so I could visit Udo to help.

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> Op 2 mrt. 2017 om 19:28 heeft Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED 
> <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hello Bruce, hoe ben jij Geert,
>  
> Thank you for the reply but I was able to download the utility files from 
> another link courtesy of Rich.
> I was only thinking of the DP Order but the other utility files especially 
> the DPDiag proved to be even more helpful.
> I am still amazed that even after all these decades I have yet to find a 
> “modern” database application comparable to the power, flexibility and ease 
> of design of DataPerfect. And believe me I tried.  Some years ago I was 
> involved in a project to create a custom designed order processing system.  
> DP was out of the question because it was first and foremost a dinosaur of a 
> DOS based program.  The direction the company took was MSSQL.  The company 
> spent several months and over $200K and ended up with a product that did not 
> truly fulfill many of the original objectives.  The programmers insisted what 
> I wanted was practically almost AI level of intuition. Here I am today using 
> DP and achieving many of the objectives I wanted back then and not spending 
> ridiculous amounts of money and time to do so.  But to be frank, DP would 
> probably be useless to me today without Jos Schaars’ VDOS adaptation, as well 
> as Tim Rude’s DPSpool.  It is truly a shame that WP did not continue to 
> develop and better market this product.  Eventually moving on to a newer 
> product would likely happen someday, but not today.
>  
> I too miss the dataperfect.nl site but I don’t know if Udo is still 
> maintaining it.  Brian Hancock mentioned a while back that he hasn’t been 
> getting emails from it anymore.
>  
> Thank you to all those who still supports DP.
>  
> Best to all,
> Ed.
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> From: Dataperf [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce 
> Conrad
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 8:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DP Utilities
>  
> Unfortunately, all of the files that were once hosted on the sanbachs.net 
> compusofl site were lost many years ago when I switched internet providers. I 
> haven't taken down the compusofl site because it might have some historical 
> interest. However, the download section is basically empty. I regret the loss 
> of those files, and also miss the dataperfect.nl site, upon which I used to 
> rely. Does anyone know if it will become operational again?
>  
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>  
> dataperfect.nl seems to be down, indeed...
> 
> You may try Bruce Conrad's site: 
> http://www.sanbachs.net/compusofl/download.html
> 
> Please note: the links are password-protected! 
> "If you have any problems downloading from this page or the FTP sites, please 
> contact me, Bruce Conrad, and I will make every attempt to make these files 
> available for you."...
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Geert
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> On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:33:48 +0100, Ed Marfil, MU <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>  
> Does any one know where I can download the DP Utilities like DPORDER, etc?  
> The links in the DP website no longer works.
>  
> Thanks.
> Ed.
>  
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