From: "John L Meyer" <jlmeyer AT rmi DOT net>
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Subject: Re: A small bussiness billing application
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:40:25 -0600
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Try Envelop Basic (run a search for it on the web)

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nospam .co.uk (Joe Sampson) <j_sampson AT postmaster> wrote in message
news:8E0A6B90Bjsampsonpostmasterco AT news DOT earthlink DOT net...
> Hello,
>
> I have decided to write a program that will help my mom with her
> accounts receivible billing at the end of each month.  DOS based
> would be okay, but I would prefer to do windows based so I could
> make it an easy point and click affair with drop down lists of
> her clients and services and a single button to calculate and
> print the bill.  I want to make the program very simplistic as
> my mom hates having to mess with computers.
>
> I will be writing this program in c++ or basic (whichever
> language I can "lift" things out of tutorials better) and I'm
> going to be learning as I go along.  I already have a basic
> knowlegde in both languages, but I am far from a practical
> programmer (just a first semester student).  I have djgpp for
> c/c++ and qbasic for basic.
>
> Enough of the rambling, here's what I need from you fine people:
>
> If anyone could point me to good, practical and cheap or free
> tools for creating this program I would be eternally grateful.
> Namely, tools for creating the windows based program that I am
> shooting for.  I think I could pull it off in dos with what I
> already have...right?
>
> Thank you for your input, and feel free to email me as well as
> post to the ng's I blatently spammed :)
>
> See ya,
> Joe
>