It's even more thrilling when the people looking for the "examples" purport to being consultants themselves and are, in effect, competitors. God Bless ya Tony. Besides, you've reached a "certain age" you have the right to be curmudgeonly.
Al Tony Gravagno wrote: >Will wrote: > > >>Tony writes: >> >> >>>have the client shell out, execute the >>>function, return data to a local file, >>> >>> >>Do you have an example of how to execute a request like >>that in Windows or Unix and return the result to a >>local file? >>Thanks >> >> > > >Sorry Will. This is my business. I take the time to research how to use >technologies and I sell that information and related services to my clients >who don't have the time to do that research on their own. I stop short of >providing detailed code sequences especially when there are (in this case) >examples provided with AccuTerm itself and in their web forum. For the XML >request and parsing, I wrote a free series of articles on this topic in >Spectrum magazine that spanned four issues and included links to a >multitude of sites for information, freeware, and products. The world is >full of examples like this and I don't think it's fair to put the burden on >people in this forum to produce data that's easily available elsewhere. > >I'll also note that Rob Wills just went to the Accuterm web site and got >info that anyone could get, and generously volunteered to come up with more >info from research tomorrow. That's very helpful and I'd usually do the >same myself, but in this case Rob is volunteering to do research simply >because Will doesn't feel like doing it. That is so wrong. > >I'm only going off on this because this request for "examples" reminds me >of the "how do I connect to the web" thread that went on for weeks with >detailed solutions - simply because a couple people wanted the information >spoon fed to them without doing their homework outside of this U2-specific >forum. C'mon, you don't want "examples", you want copy/paste code for your >specific project and the questions will keep coming until every aspect of >the project is complete. > >I know this is harsh. But every time I post a note like this somewhere I >get flamed by some people for being a grouch and I get emails of praise >from others for drawing the line somewhere - I'll take the risk. I'm >sorry, I'll provide as much free info as I can to benefit as many people as >possible, and I've been doing so in MV forums like this for over 10 years. >But when the questions get this specific I have to ask people to do their >own homework. There are those of us who work hard and study hard so that >we can sell our knowledge as a product and thus pay our bills. There is >value to what we do, as is evident by the fact that people are going to >take info they find here and sell it to someone else as their own know-how. > >There's no accident to my calling my company "Research and Development". >We'll do the research and/or we'll do the development - we consider both of >these as equally valuable offerings in this market where many people need >as much information as they need assistance with development using modern >technologies. > >Tony Gravagno >Nebula Research and Development >------- >u2-users mailing list >u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
