On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:

> It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as 
> opposed to 5.1 or 5.5.

Versions are frequently skipped when software is released.  Remember
Dale said this was *unreleased* software.  (I don't recall offhand
whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.)

> Now I migrate as much as possible to Gnumeric.

What has your experience been?

> In the days of Quattro Pro 5 for DOS, I never heard of wi-fi or BSD checksums.

Back then, Wifi didn't exist, and BSD required an AT&T source license
to run, since it derived from AT&T code.  Checksums were around, but
rather simpler and easily spoofed.  Nobody cared about that because no
one was *trying* to.

> Tom
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