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In article <dangold1.714921359@pv1414.vincent.iastate.edu>, dangold1@iastate.edu (Daniel M Goldman) writes:
> I'm looking for comments and opinions on some BASIC related items
> I've been reviewing.  Cresent Software has an impressive array of
> what appear to be useful tools, like QuickPak, PDQ Basic, Quick-
> screen, utilities, etc.  MicroHelp also has quite a collection of
> items as well. 
>    Does anyone have any good or bad experience with the products
> or the companies?  I'd like to hear what others have to say, as
> so far I am favorably impressed and am considering trying some of
> these.  

I use a lot of Crescent's stuff, some of it is excellent, some of it
is ok.  Their president, Ethan Winer, is a Basic Genius and the code
he wrote (most of Quickpak and PDQ) is particularly good. (He's the
author of 'Basic Techniques and Utilities' - a must for any Basic
programmer)
Quickpak is a collection of several hundred routines, some in Basic
and some in ASM that do things like windowing, access to DOS and BIOS
services, searching, sorting, pull down menus, even routines for an 
editor and spreadsheet.
PDQ is a set of replacement link libraries that allow you to compile
really fast exes to very small sizes (less than 1k program size in
some cases).  It also allows you to write TSR programs with ease, and 
using Basic.
The company is very professional and has an impressive customer list
which includes Microsoft.  They also have a support BBS.

 - Aidan

	I have been using Crescent QuickPak professionnal for many
years now. I like this product alot. I have also had a look at
MicroHelp a few years back. I didn't like this product. I was many 
function program by many individuals.

Hope this help.



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In article <dangold1.714921359@pv1414.vincent.iastate.edu> dangold1@iastate.edu (Daniel M Goldman) writes:
>I'm looking for comments and opinions on some BASIC related items
>I've been reviewing.  Cresent Software has an impressive array of
>what appear to be useful tools, like QuickPak, PDQ Basic, Quick-
>screen, utilities, etc.  MicroHelp also has quite a collection of
>items as well. 
>   Does anyone have any good or bad experience with the products
>or the companies?  I'd like to hear what others have to say, as
>so far I am favorably impressed and am considering trying some of
>these.  
>    You can e-mail your response, or please post so others can 
>react to your comments.  -Thanks y'all, DmG
>

Well, I haven't purchased anything from them lately, but about six
months ago I needed some advice on a Basic project and ordered 
Crescent's demo disk. It had some really neat stuff on it... Additionally,
Ethan Winer (from Crescent) and Mark Novisoff (of MicroHelp) are 
frequently found in discussions on Compuserv, and are very helpful. 
In fact, Ethan even wrote some code for me once, in response to a 
how-do-you-do-this question that wasn't trivial. They both seem like
good guys, running nice companies.

The general impression I got was a preference for Crescent's products,
but I'm no expert.  The CS people seemed to think highly of both 
companies.

-greg delozier/sr analyst/loral defense systems/ & graduate student...