vestris
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- — The Second Life of Autoconf for MS-DOS
Before GNU Autoconf generated configure scripts, there was a DOS program called Autoconf. It let you keep one CONFIG.SYS and one AUTOEXEC.BAT, then choose among boot configurati...
- — Rebooting Vestris.com
I’ve rebooted vestris.com and have incorporated it in New York State to serve as a legal entity for my open-source projects, including the many slack bots.
- — Alla Klein: A Fake Person In Charge of Customer Support
Mea Culpa. Alla Klein was a fake.
- — Autoconf: Maybe the First Example of Microsoft Pushing Features into the OS to Kill a Competitor
Update, September 2026: I found the original 1991 SVM article, identified and contacted its author, rebuilt both the original and later versions, and reconstructed Autoconf’s hi...
- — Blast From The Past: Jade
In 1997 I wrote a program called Jade. It worked on Windows 3.1. I can’t get it to run anymore, but I got the image that would hang there until the app loaded – it says Stolen T...
- — Blast from the past: working versions of XReplace-32 and Expression Calculator
In 2009 I gave away the remainder of my old company’s, Vestris Inc., software. The source code for all of it is also available here.
- — Vestris Inc. source code published
In the spirit of winding down the rest of Vestris Inc., I’ve published the source code for all of the commercial software.
- — SLMRA: silly little mail reader
There was a time when having multiple e-mail accounts was some kind of a pipe dream. Since I had more than one, I had to deal with Eudora that wouldn’t allow me to have more tha...
- — Autoconf: world's best multiple configurations software
This was my first commercial product. It has been available for a while with full x86 assembly source code. It’s useful if you still run a DOS system ;)
- — Vestris Inc. software for free
It’s 2009 and my first company, Vestris Inc., hasn’t existed since 2004. You can read some history here. For the anecdote, this is the actual map of Vestris Inc. customers.