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Philippe Kahn - “(Mr. Manzi], let me refresh your memory. Four years ago, you unfairly attacked Borland company by alleging copyright infringement. You knew, like all of us, that “systems” and functionality cannot be copyrighted. Nevertheless, you tried to put our company out of business.. .We can’t erease the irreparable damages that you caused our company, our customers, and our shareholders over the past four years.. .Mr. Manzi, innovate, don’t litigate. Invest less in your legal department and more in your research and development teams.. .[Mr. Gates], a healthy competition developed between your large company and our more modest enterprise. As a consequence, the rate of innovation in the tools market continued to increase. We prevailed in tools, but you took the lead in applications and databases... Mr. Gates, the ball is in your court. You now have the opportunity to prove all of your detractors wrong.. .You and Microsoft are in a position to help build personal computing into the next century and make it one of the most exciting industrial endeavors ever...So, to conclude, Mr. Manzi, please refocus your efforts. You should keeep your criticism to yourself; you have no pIece to complain about Mr. Gatns or Microsoft. Your anticompetitive practices are the worst in the world... .Mr. Gates, in the name of the software industry, please provide leadership by making Windows 95 a level playing field where all can fairly compete and succeed.”

Quite an exchange, huh? Mr. Manzi?...Mr. Manzi?. Are you out there, Mr. Manzi?

Interesting Statistic Department. According to Roper Marketing and Public Opinion Research, 43% of middle-class America used a personal computer in the last year.

Is it me, or did this year’s batch of tax preparation software have an unusually high count of glitches?

Satan Arrives. “Satan” arrived on April 5. Standing for Security Administrator 1001 for analyzing Networks it’s a controversial program that points out holes in computer security and looks for problems before potential hackers can. The program was developed by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema. It was uploaded to the InterNet and has been the center of quite a controversy ever since.

Farmer was fired from his job at Silicon after he said he was going to distribute H the InterNet. The tool itself was develo when he was the network security mana Microsystems, Inc. Supposedly, even with no experience at breaking into security can run the program to find flaws.

In response, the Computer Incident Advisory Committee of the Emergency Response Team of the Depart ment of Energy (Can you say in one breath?], developed a program that allows system operators to track hackers that use Satan. Named “Courtney”, it was also placed on the InterNet April 5.

“Bob”, Microsoffs latest offering to truly “home” computer enthusiasts, made its debut, with some stores, like Learningsmith, hosting all-day parties for those wanting to get their hands on “him”. In addition to making personal computers easier to use, Bob includes eight home PC programs like a checkbook manager, address book, and electronic mail.

“Further Adventures of Mr. Bill”, Part 3. In the wake of a phony press release stating that Microsoft had made a bid to acquire the Catholic Church, John /‘.. McCoy, a church spokesrian from western Washington, issued his own press release stating that the deal could have been a good one: “We’ve had 2,000 years of working with icons. Microsoft has only done it for three. We could have helped.” (From PC Maaazin&

Making Browse Key Faster Using Undocu

mented Syntax Requirements

by Wayne Snyder, CIS# 71754,1553 (<wayne_snyder@usconnect.columbia.com)

At one time or another, almost everyone needs to do a lookup on address. The requirement I had was to allow the user to name a street, street type like OR, LN, PKWV, HWV, etc., street direction like E,W, N, 5, as well as the house numberto getto a browse screen. The user may want the browse to include all streets whose name begins with “CANNON” and whose street type is “BLVD”1 so that all properties for CANNON BLVD, CANNON TEMPLE BLVD, etc. would populate the browse window.

My solution was to use code like: