Looking for Joe DiPaula

[Jim O]

Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to the VectorWorks world. I am currently contracting for a company that needs to upgrade from MiniCAD 6 to VectorWorks 11. I will need to convert from MiniPascal to VectorScript and I understand that there will be some changes required to the source code.

My first goal is to find the author of the MiniPascal programs which were written in the mid-1990's. The author's name is Joseph DiPaula. I don't expect anybody to give me his phone number or address, but I am hoping that somebody out there knows Joe and can please communicate to him that I would like to get in touch with him to ask his assistance with our conversion.

If I am unable to find Joe, is there anybody else out there that has experience translating MiniPascal (under MiniCAD 6.0.4) to VectorScript (under VectorWorks 11)?

I can be contacted at: fara_casa@yahoo.com

Any help will be grately appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim

[Jim O]

Thank you Raymond for your reply.

Part of my problem is that I don't think that Joe provided the company in question with a "soft" copy of the source code. I have a hardcopy printout of a version of the source code. I am assuming that it is the latest and greatest, but I am not sure.

I searched the hard drive for something that looks like it might be the source code, but could not find anything. I am not even sure what the extension of the file is (i. e. is it a ".txt" file?) Can you please tell me what the extension is on a MiniPascal program so that I can try doing a search on it?

Do you know if there is a way to get the source code out of the "command" that we click on to execute the MiniPascal program?

I am concerned that I may need to retype in the hardcopy version of the program, compile it, and hope that it works the way that it does now. This will add a lot of time to the conversion process.

Thanks again for your help.

Jim