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Monthly Archives: January 2020

DataBridge

06 Monday Jan 2020

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Stories

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computer programmer, computer programming, data, Java, software, software design, software development

The last story was about PF.EXE, a file-processing utility I wrote for my own uses way back when. That one was a combination of C code and 8086 assembler, written for MS-DOS (worked fine in Windows), that read and wrote disc files. It had a toolkit of things it could do to them, depending on command line switches.

Many years later, using Java, I created more capable versions, the culmination of which was a suite called DataBridge. It turned out to be some of the most valuable work I ever did for The Company.

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