Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!newsfeed.eweka.nl!feeder3.eweka.nl!81.171.88.15.MISMATCH!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!multikabel.net!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,alt.lang.basic Subject: Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format References: <5995c042-0ec8-42f5-92e2-b2173dfe8d8a@gh5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4de7f0f9$0$28442$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:50:32 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Richard Russell" Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.11 (Win32) Lines: 19 Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 939bc970.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=f?L3TX>SD;fX`2 wrote: > It occurs to me that, rather than using COM to find the LB install, you > could simply ask the user where it is. Well, yes, but when I said I couldn't write it in Liberty Basic I meant I couldn't write a program with identical functionality. Irrespective of issues of functionality, why would I want to write anything in Liberty Basic? It's a language I don't know as well as some others, and it's a language I don't like. And don't get me started about the bugs, or how slow it is, or the monstrous executables! If Liberty Basic users are so 'protectionist' that they won't run a utility - however useful it might be - unless it's written in LB, I'm afraid I am not inclined to pander to them. Richard. http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/