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A pat on the back

Subject: A pat on the back
From: ai7b@teleport.com (Bob Wruble)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:28:04 -0800

                AMEN AMEN DE BRAVO (STILL)

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> From: D. R. Evans <devans@lynx.colorado.edu>
> To: trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: A pat on the back
> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 1996 8:56 AM
> 
> It's been a while since we all patted Tree on the back, so I
thought I'd
> lead the way this time....
> 
> Whenever I do single-op, I use TR. Last year, however, I did CQWWCW
at
> N2IC, and Steve uses CT. It was the first time I'd used CT in
several
> years, and it was an interesting experience to go back to pre-TR
> software.
> 
> Afterwards, I sent Tree private mail that said something to the
effect
> of: "TR beats CT in everything, except SCP". TR's handling of SCP
was, if
> you remember, at that time extremely kludgy (at least, I tought
so). CT's
> handling of SCP, on the other hand, was so good that I told Tree
that if
> I had to do another CQWW, I'd use CT, because its SCP handling
outweighed
> all the disadvantages.
> 
> A year passes. 
> 
> I confess that I haven't looked at any recent version of CT, so
perhaps
> there's some nifty new feature there that TR doesn't have. However,
when
> I look at the TR of today, compared to TR a year ago, all I can say
is
> "Live long and prosper, Tree". The TRMASTER.DTA stuff is wonderful
> (especially now he's added the USER fields; thanks, Tree). TR is
fast,
> small and very, very clever. The SCP is now great, just like every
other
> feature I use in the program. I anticipate my few hours' outing in
SS
> this weekend to be a pure pleasure.
> 
> Thank you very much, Tree. And may you get the callsign of your
choice.
> 
> 
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> D.R. Evans NQ0I / G4AMJ :       devans@lynx.colorado.edu
> Member, 1997 Nebula Novel Jury   al019@freenet.uchsc.edu
> 
> "Palindor Chronicles" information and extracts:
>    http://spot.colorado.edu/~romigj/drevans.html
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