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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">I downloaded VLC and 4 pfd documents and
have played with this for the last day or two. With your permission I shall make
some comments which may easily be taken as criticisms - which I guess they
are.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Perhaps I do not have what is perceived to
be the required qualifications to make these observations. Let me just state
that I'm now in my early 70's, retired after teaching Mathematics, Physics
and Computer Science for 30-odd years and at one time I wrote a lot of software
for the early Commodore machines, including a couple of word
processors.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">VLC seems to be pretty skookum when it comes
to what I assume it is (or will be) capable of doing. Most impressive. But...
some common errors are being made.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">If you want to write a successful piece of
software you need to write the manual first - and it needs to be edited over and
over by non-programmer potential users. Only after this is in the can do you
start coding.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">This is not what appears to have happened
here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Also - the 4 pdf documents were, in common
with most documentation "these days" (!) gives the distinct impression that the
purpose of the exercise is to use as much paper as possible - rather than
actually leading the unfamiliar potential user through the steps needed to make
things happen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Well there you have it. I'm not
intentionally pissing on your parade... just being "upfront" - and
<EM>perhaps</EM> contributing? Well, I hope, anyhow.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>==========================<BR>Harold Brochmann<BR>SaltSpring Island
BC, Canada<BR>==========================<BR></DIV>
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