| Re: Free IDL Software [message #14544] |
Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00  |
Phil Aldis
Messages: 11
Registered: February 1999
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In article <MPG.114ee503df2a0f25989711@news.frii.com>,
davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
> Jon Kimber writes:
Well, actually Phil Aldis writes, an associated problem of several different
people using one machine to post messages I accidentally forgot to change the
signature file.
>
>> I think that is certainly better than a goto in that circumstance. I
>> had to use that several times in the ptr_free program I wrote (see
>> post of 04/03/'99), but then no-one would know about that been as not
>> one person has loooked at it - oh well I'll leave programs that are of
>> use to others to the likes of DWF.
>
> I wouldn't get discouraged that no one bothers to download your
> software, Jon. Like any advertising, you have to let people know
> five or six times that it is available before anyone stirs themselves
> to check it out. Then I would estimate 95% of the people who check
> it out won't use it. Not because they don't need it, but because
> they perceive they don't have time to learn it. (Sometimes this
> is the fault of the software author who doesn't provide a LOT
> of help in the documentation.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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