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Serge · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:58 am Post subject: vds newsletter

hi all,

just read the newsletter from vds which was great to receive and i have 2 questions:

1. when i click on the link that is supposed to take me to the registered member page, it asks me if i want to download a file CUSTS.EXE, what gives?

2. i could not find anywhere in the VDS site menu a link to the registered members page, anyone know what it is?

thanks in advance

serge

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I had the same issue with Firefox, try IE and also I removed the last / from the URL Smile

Please do not post this link here.

Serge · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:48 am Post subject:

thanks for the tip marty - it worked Smile

serge

jwfv · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:54 am Post subject:

I agree - it was great to see some activity from there. Even though the details on VDS 6 were a little sparse, I was glad to get it.

Edited to add: I didn't mean that in a negative way. I'm sure there is a lot of effort going into VDS 6 - but as a user, it is nice to see tangible evidence of it ...

JRoza · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:34 am Post subject:

Yes I agree ....... it's good to see the end of the hibernating period of Commercial Research.
Funny though isn't it ........ finally someone made a VDSZIP dll and asks for beta testers and all of a sudden CR comes around the corner with a ZIP dll of their own.
I don't know what the price for the new ZIP dll to be beta tested will be but I think $74 is a bit steep.
Is the CR ZIP dll the one that Jules talked about some time ago?

But it's definitely positive that CR is showing signs of life again.

Very Happy

Jan

Rubes_sw · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:55 am Post subject:

How did you get the newsletter, i have registered versions of VDS 3.51, VDS4 and VDS5 and have never recevied a newsletter.

Is it an opt in system, could someone forward me a copy of the newsletter?

info@active-ware.co.uk

Thanks

Nathan

jules · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:11 am Post subject:

jules · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:20 am Post subject:

JRoza · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:21 am Post subject:

"VDS may be a hobby tool for many of you, but unfortunately CR has to pay professional development costs."

True, still I'm very interested in the quality and price Bill has in mind for his zip dll.

jules · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:02 am Post subject:

Well I don't blame you. I did point out to Emmanuel that by sitting on this DLL until a competitor had been announced, he had probably lost the chance of a lot of sales.

But it is a nice DLL. I have been using it for several months in my apps that were originally using VDSZip, and it's a great improvement, not to mention the fact that it doesn't crash or cause data execution faults. It can create SFX Zips with a very small header (19K if you compress the header with UPX first) and it also supports the 64bit Zip format.

Serge · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:46 am Post subject:

Hooligan · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject:

JRoza · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

For those who didn't got the VDS Newsletter, I got it four times.
All with different logon accounts for the registered user account but send to the same mail-address, so CR must like me a lot.
What have you done? Did they throw you overboard?

Jokes aside, it looks like their user database is far from pure, so maybe just contact them and verify they still know you as a registered customer.
Should be not too hard for them to fix these omitions.

Jan

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

Hooligan · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject:

I got three copies... Very Happy

They were marked as spam by the spam filter... Very Happy

Hooligan