The last story was about PF.EXE, a file-processing utility I wrote for my own use way back when. That one was a combination of C code and 8086 assembler and written for MS-DOS (worked fine in Windows). It read and wrote disc files and 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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