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-=> Acknowledgements <=-
When I first started the Wildtick project, all I had in mind was
a very simple utility to read TICs and create a .REP file that
I could upload to my own BBS. The first few versions of the program
were called "Repatic" for that reason.
Repatic was a smashing success - on my own system. One of the local
sysops logged on, saw the file announcements, and asked me for a
copy. He tried it on his system, and it promptly bombed. After I
figured out what was wrong, I saw that with a few additional lines
of code, I could also copy the incoming TICs as well as report them.
Thus, Wildtick was born and Repatic was taken out and shot.
My instincts told me that I was on to something very good with
Wildtick, so instead of keeping it to myself I decided to let
you, the Wildcat sysop community, the hardest, but fairest, critics,
test it to see if it was useful/useless, easy/hard to use, buggy/perfect.
I made it an "open" beta so that no one would who wanted to try it
out would be denied the chance.
I'm glad I did it that way. You tested it everywhichway, on a variety
of platforms and systems, telling me what happened, whether it worked
or not, and showing me the many ways the program could go wrong and
how I could do it better.
After a brutal beta testing cycle, I am very gratified by the
results, and I'm sure you will be too when you try Wildtick -
it has become a professional product because the Wildcat community
deserves no less.
I would like to personally thank all of the great Wildcat sysops
that helped in testing Wildtick, but the list would be way too long!
Those particularly helpful to me, not only by encouragement, but
by finding nasty problems I overlooked and making suggestions for
improvement, are hereby acknowledged and are granted a free
license to use all future releases of Wildtick:
Russell Abernathy, Robert Holtz, Jon Saul, Steve Scott, William
Mantz, Jim Whitesell, Vincent Parker, Robert Breault, John Jones,
Danny Cummings, Stephen Barclay and Garry Piatt.
I hope you enjoy using Wildtick as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Lawrence Gordon, Author
Sysop - Toast House BBS
St. Louis, MO
(314) 994-0312
Fidonet 1:100/560
Toadnet 86:8012/11