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Subject: Re: Congrats for Vincent but something else too...

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:15:15 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 14:45:39, Fernando Villegas wrote:

Perhaps your email must be outdated then, because i shipped
some months ago the paderborn version which i shipped to many
persons. I will retry it again. It is not much different from
the version i played with. In fact as Kim Burcham pointed out here
it is better in some respect :)

>Vincent:
>At last you have got a result that match your hopes about Diep, hopes that, BTW,
>everyone here with a couple of years knows too well. Now let me express my own,
>particular hope: five or six years ago -perhaps 7 or 8- I bought from you one of
>the first versions of Diep when, I guess, almost nobody knew abouy you and your
>program. BTW I remember well It was not a cheap purchase: 50 florins or so.
>After that you promised me once and again that a new, better version was going
>to be delivered to me. That never happened. Only thing you send to me in the
>middle of those looooong year was a floppy disk with another flawed, uncomplete,
>beta version. Of course you send to me many emails with also loooong
>explanations about what was happening, why you was not in conditions to do this
>or hat, etc. Well, don't you think the moment has arrived to make truth your
>words? I will be happy with the current Diep version even if you say that no, I
>must wait another 5 years because this Diep in fact is not ready for me. I am
>satisfied with the second place. I will be happy with this second place version.
>I will be a radiant guy with your current, actual, contemporary Diep. I am 453
>ywears old and in ten years more I suppose I will be trainning my fre time in a
>wheel-chair. May I get the thing before that sad times comes?
>My best
>Fernando



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