Re: WRKDBF

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Lampert wrote:
> Could somebody please explain why it is that so many people are so 
> attached to WRKDBF, and so upset over its demise? I've had to use it on 
> one or two customer boxes that don't have QuestView, and I find it so 
> clunky and unstable as to be barely usable.
>
> Sure, it's open source freeware, but so are OpenOffice, Firefox, 
> Thunderbird, and GIMP, and none of them are clunky or unstable.
>
>   
I've used WRKDBF for years (decades it seems) and I never considered it 
either clunky or unstable.  Given the fact that it was written by one 
guy in his free time (and I believe it started from a code generator), 
it's incredibly powerful.  I think comparing that to Thunderbird and the 
hundreds of developers and thousands (millions?) of users is quite the 
stretch.

The iSeries community owes a huge debt to Bill Reger, and I only wish he 
had decided to bring the tool into the next generation of applications.

Joe

P.S. Your workstation clock is still an hour ahead.