GrandView for Windows v1

Posted by DW Smith
Mar 20, 2021 at 09:52 PM

Dee
THANK YOU! GREAT JOB! Sorry, I don’t usually yell…
I fell in love with Grandview in the mid 1980s and used it extensively until the mid-1990s. I used Categories extensively and really missed them after it became clear it was not going to be ported to Windows. Great way to organize information in multiple dimensions!

The only issue I had was the download link from google docs didn’t seem to work in Chrome, so I switched over to MS Edge, and it downloaded fine.
I didn’t realize your download provides a copy of vDos-lfn, so I had already downloaded DOSBOX-x. It seem to work will that emulator, but I used your shortcut creator, and now have an icon on my Desktop. I then copied the folders I had with GV files to the USER folder and was able to access them easily.
I still have hundreds of .gv files, and have just revisited them with your tool for the first time in 25 years! I was able to select all of the text from a document and export it as space delimited ASCII - Wonderful!

Thanks again, Don Smith
Software developer, customer support engineer and instructor during my ‘working’ career in Silicon Valley
Community College Computer Science Professor for the last 20 years (now partially retired)