Hello Deep and welcome back!  I was more of a lurker back in the 1990s 
but what a pleasure to see your name again on the list.
Now if we can only entice Rick Brown to return.

I'd be happy to give your application a test.

Brian S.



On Aug 27, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Deepesh Letap wrote:

>
> Hi All!
>
> Some of you old timers (no disrespect intended) from the mid-1990s may
> remember the first version of Scorpion Bar that was built back then 
> using
> the original FB, in 68K code, when colour screens and multifinder were 
> all
> the rage for the techno-savvy man about town.......!
>
> The completely rewritten version compiled using FB4 to be Carbon 
> Appearance
> compliant is now ready for beta testing.
>
> As before, it is a relatively simple application designed to build 
> barcode
> images in PICT or EPS format from the text equivalent, to be as easy to
> operate and as intuitive as possible. To quote a popular marketing 
> adage,
> "It does what it says on the packet", not a lot more, not a lot less.
>
> If any of the list members would like to participate in the beta test,
> please eMail me (DLetap@...) off FB-List privately. It
> would help if you put [Scorpion Beta] in the subject line.
>
> Some of the info you may need to make your decision to participate (or 
> not)
> is included below:
>
> 1) The file is significantly less than a megabyte, exact size still to 
> be
> determined. Probably less than half a megabyte. Plan is to eMail it to 
> you.
>
> 2) Ideally, you need a machine running MacOS 9.1 or later or MacOS X 
> 10.1 or
> later according to the FB4 documentation. If your machine is earlier 
> than
> this level, you can still participate but we would only ask you what 
> happens
> when you double click the program icon since technically FB4 
> applications
> only run on these latter machines?
>
> 3) Should not take more than 15 mins to test fully (since you are all
> experienced Mac users!).
>
> As a beta tester, you will be offered a free license for the release 
> version
> and will be a legally registered user as if you paid the full price of 
> GBP
> 99.00 (Approx USD 175).
>
> Hope to be flooded with requests to participate!!!!
>
> Thanking you in advance,
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Deepesh P Letap
> Scorpion Research Ltd England
>
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>