I am a retired professional engineer who did a good bit of programming in conjunction with structural engineering. On retiring I had my own company to produce database programs in dBase, Clipper, and C++. I have also done a good bit of Access programming. These served very well in augmenting my reduced pension after retiring early.
Now I am looking for something to fill my 'indoor' time. I very much like the idea of OpenOffice as I understand it. In the old programming days a hacker was one who helped anyone who needed help. We encouraged and helped even our competition. I hate what has happened to the field. I am now downloading 2.2 and will try it out. I have put Open Ofice on several computers of folks who could not afford MSOffice and it appears to have served the purpose well. Do you have some advice on how I migh be of help? I have the Old Borland Turbo C++ package and Delphi but never had any good use for them and did not explore very far. Rollen Easter
