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[Roy wood]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
I think if QLiberator and Text87 were achievable, I suspect Roy Wood
and/or Jochen Merz would have secured them by now.
This is indeed true. I approached Fred Toussi a while ago about doing an 
upgrade to Text 87 and suggested that he could produce a new version 
using the new colours and adding simple stuff like access to pointer 
driven menus for file selection (via Menu_rext). He was not keen. I 
suggested he gave us the sources and we could get someone to do it but 
he regarded his sources as being secret and had plans of releasing a 
version for other platforms. In the end, after a lot of pushing from me 
and then a lot more from Marcel we got enough for the Text 87 patch to 
be written.

Qliberator was another story but Ian Stewart, who was my only contact, 
had only a small part in writing it. The other author, whose name 
escapes me, had long since disappeared and the sources were not 
available. I have now no contact for Ian so when the last few copies I 
have are exhausted I cannot sell it.  I have not sold a copy for some 
time so I am not too worried but I would have liked to get it updated.
--
Roy Wood
Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030    fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501
web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk