[Gambas-user] Nice book of Gambas

admin at ...1956... admin at ...1956...
Mon Sep 1 21:14:43 CEST 2008


Quoting Kari Laine <klaine8 at ...626...>:

>> Kari,
>>
>> I tried as well.
>>
>> Can you take the lead on getting the password or the original source
>> document?
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Hi John,
>
>
> I think there is no password on the file because I commented a test in
> pdftohtml to ignore some kind of protection and out it came. BUT there is no
> layout, no pictures only the text. So it is big job to turn it to a nice
> document. Anyway the screen capture pictures would probably be old anyway.
>
> I read the OpenContent license of the book and if I understood right it
> would make difficult to produce derivative work or wiki - quite impossible
> in fact.
>
> Maybe someone with leverage - Benoit - could contact John W Rittinghouse and
> ask.
>
> Fact is Gambas needs more documentation to lure users. Also I would be
> prepared to pay for a technical document how Gambas works. I have used now
> countles hours and I have just scratched the surface. Either I am darn
> stupid or Benoit is about to win obfuscated code contest :-) before this day
> I know very little about compilers and interpreters and I am not very good
> with C - so it is going to take few months...
>
> And Windows version would be nice too :-)
>
>
> Best Regards
> Kari Laine
>

Kari,

I won't install the wiki till you have permission from John R.and the  
source to the original content. I will leave the  
http://gambas.allbasic.info sub-domain active till no hope is left.

I'm still counting on you to get to the bottom of this.

John




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