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Subject: [OT] Vern Buerg is dead - ZBLIST is available as BETA
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:20:52 +0100
Message-ID: <4C2F4744.5010907@prino.org>
"Many of us have used LIST at one time or another. The bad news is that
it has now probably disappeared into the great digital beyond, see
http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20100107/COMMUNITY/100109636<quote>
Vernon D. BuergBusiness owner
Published: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:38 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:38 p.m.
San Francisco native Vernon D. Buerg died suddenly at his home in
Petaluma on Dec. 30, 2009. He was 62.
Mr. Buerg owned and operated Buerg Software of Petaluma.
He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer Foreman of Sonoma; siblings,
Carolyn Hitt of Rohnert Park and Steven Buerg of Daly City; nieces; and
nephews. He was predeceased by his wife, Julie Ann Buerg.
Private family services will be held.
</quote>
The world has lost one of the great shareware programmers.
ZBLIST may not yet be at the stage of LIST 9.6y or List Enhanced (not
sure about the last version) but it is a native Windows program. It's
still rough, but the author, another IBM mainframe programmer like Vern,
will work on it provided he gets more feedback.
The beta is available at
http://www.bizer.com/zblist/If you decide to download the program, give the guy some feedback, and
at some stage it may become a worthy replacement for LIST and LIST
Enhanced. (I still love and use LIST, but with greater directory depths
and more files per directory, its limitations are beginning to become
more obvious)
Robert"
Salute!, Goodbye!, and Farewell! to a really great progammer!
