1. Effective shock therapy :-)
Hi all,
is there an effective therapy of slow heart rate in an avarage hobby-
programmer? Yes, there is. Just tell him, that two of his programs are
recommended by a well known computer magazine ... That's what happened
to me on Thursday.
On my private website, I offer some small Euphoria programs for free
download <http://luethje.de.vu/prog/>. In the past, I had told about
these programs in some web forums, but I never told Google or another
search engine about my website. So I was very surprised, when on
Thursday someone told me, that my programs 'eml2mbx' and 'mbx2eml' are
recommended in the current issue of c't (c't 22/2003, pp. 178-179).
They are rather simple Windows command-line tools. 'eml2mbx'
"packs" single e-mail messages (according to RFC 2822) into Unix mailbox
files (mbox format). 'mbx2eml' "unpacks" mbox files.
(Currently there are only German versions of the programs. I hope that
I'll have some time soon, to translate them to English.)
c't is the German computer magazine with the best reputation, and no
computer magazine in whole Europe has more subscribers. Each issue of
c't is bought by more than 385000 people.
If someone thinks, that this post is too much off topic, I apologize in
advance. But I think some of you can understand, that I had to tell you.
And since of course I give credits to RDS in the documentation, this has
the potential to make Euphoria more popular, which is good for all of us.
Regards,
Juergen
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2. Re: Effective shock therapy :-)
herzlichen Gluckwunsch!
Juergen Luethje wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> is there an effective therapy of slow heart rate in an avarage hobby-
> programmer? Yes, there is. Just tell him, that two of his programs are
> recommended by a well known computer magazine ... That's what happened
> to me on Thursday.
>
> On my private website, I offer some small Euphoria programs for free
> download <http://luethje.de.vu/prog/>. In the past, I had told about
> these programs in some web forums, but I never told Google or another
> search engine about my website. So I was very surprised, when on
> Thursday someone told me, that my programs 'eml2mbx' and 'mbx2eml' are
> recommended in the current issue of c't (c't 22/2003, pp. 178-179).
> They are rather simple Windows command-line tools. 'eml2mbx'
> "packs" single e-mail messages (according to RFC 2822) into Unix mailbox
> files (mbox format). 'mbx2eml' "unpacks" mbox files.
> (Currently there are only German versions of the programs. I hope that
> I'll have some time soon, to translate them to English.)
>
> c't is the German computer magazine with the best reputation, and no
> computer magazine in whole Europe has more subscribers. Each issue of
> c't is bought by more than 385000 people.
>
> If someone thinks, that this post is too much off topic, I apologize in
> advance. But I think some of you can understand, that I had to tell you.
> And since of course I give credits to RDS in the documentation, this has
> the potential to make Euphoria more popular, which is good for all of us.
>
> Regards,
> Juergen
>
3. Re: Effective shock therapy :-)
Tommy Carlier wrote:
> Way to go Juergen!
> I think a lot of programmers will agree that this is a big thing:
> getting appreciation for something you created. And I think it will
> attract attention to Euphoria too.
I hope so. This would be a good side-effect.
> I think your programs are not very complicated, but a lot of people will
> find them very useful.
I agree. I think I just had a good feeling for what some people need. So
it doesn't matter too much, that the programs are rather simple: They do
their job.
> Perhaps you could also create a GUI-application
> in Windows and/or Linux,
I already have that in mind. That's the reason why the version numbers
of both programs currently have a '0' in front of the decimal point. 
Or maybe I will put the functionality of both programs (and more) into a
single program, called 'MboxTool' or so.
On the other hand, I don't know if it's really necessary, to create a
Windows GUI for the programs. I already wrote a plugin for Total
Commander, that is similar to 'mbx2eml'. So there is a great GUI, with
additional functionality (e.g. looking for duplicate messages).
Concerning this whole topic, my first priority is to further develop
the plugin, i.e. adding the functionality of 'eml2mbx', and more.
> for greater user-friendliness (is that a word?).
I don't know either. If not, it *should* be a word IMHO.
> If you like the idea: I'd like to help with the Windows-part.
>
> Tommy Carlier (http://users.pandora.be/tommycarlier).
I appreciate your offer, and I'll keep it in mind.
Thank you, Tommy!
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Best regards,
Juergen
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4. Re: Effective shock therapy :-)
Evan Marshall wrote:
> herzlichen Gluckwunsch!
Vielen Dank!
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Best regards,
Juergen
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