On 15-Mar-99 Andrew Benham wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Gerd wrote:
>
>> There's one thing that should be added here. Obviously, there has
>> been no further development on BPQ since version 4.08a, which is
>> available for quite a couple of years now.
>> That indicates for several people including me, that the author does
>> not work on the program any more.
>
> I believe a statement has been made to this effect by G8BPQ.
> Certainly G4IDE (the author of WinPack) has issued a patch to solve
> a problem, simply because the BPQ switch code won't be updated.
I may be wrong (I will speak to him in the next couple of days) but I heard
that he was doing a 32bit windows port at the moment.
>
>> Therefore, it can't be such a bad idea to release the sources of this
>> masterpiece of software to the public. A hint mentioning that
>> there's no support for this code or program by the author may be
>> included. I think many people could deal with that.
>
> I think I'd prefer if a "hard-core" group took over maintenance,
> rather than making the source generally available. From what I
> understand, there's some pretty freaky coding in it.
>
Nope, BPQish maybe, but not particularly freaky :-)
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Dirk-Jan Koopman, Tobit Computer Co Ltd
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find
at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
