On 3/31/99 5:35 AM Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> Well, first of all, Bob's code is in QuickBasic, not C. I've seen parts
>> of it, it is not clean code. It would take you twice as long to figure it
>> out as to start from scratch. Second, the hard part of an APRS program is
>
>That's cool. I can code from scratch -- can we have the full protocol
>documentation?
>
Sure, all that exists is in the text files included with Bob's program.It
is online at:
http://www.dididahdahdidit.com/DOSAPRS.HTM
It sucks, but there is no secret stash of documentation among the
authors.
>> But tell me, when you go to the store, and they make you pay $6.00 a
>> pound for steak, do you start whining that it isn't free? Do you complain
>> that they won't let you in the back to cut it yourself? Just like the
>> butcher, Bob has every right to sell his wares.
>
>There's no per-unit cost in distributing software for free on the internet.
>There is per-unit cost in selling a steak.
>
Sure there is per-unit cost. Anyone who says otherwise has never produced
commercial software and had to support users!
Steve K4HG
