Category : BASIC Source Code
Archive   : VBMSG.ZIP
Filename : MSGDEM1.FRM
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Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
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