<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style type="text/css">body { font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:13px; background:Window}</style></head><body><div>Since I'm in the same town as the HOT3000 boys, I gave them a phone call to see what was cooking WRT the "Expired License"message that someone was getting when they tried to run the program.</div><div><br></div><div>Me ? I haven't used the program since it's predecessor (HOTCAN) first appeared. </div><div><br></div><div>Back then, personal computers were IBM 286 AT's , the program and all the weather files were on a 1.44 Mb floppy and it was DOS-based ... and people used computers mostly for computational tasks. Imagine that ! Pwuh!</div><br>------- Forwarded message -------<br>From: "Blake, Jeff"<br><br>Subject: RE: HOT3000 license expiry<br>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:46 -0500<br><br>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="761375016-23012012">Robert,</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="761375016-23012012">We put the expiry date in the HOT3000 beta version so
that we would update the testing version on a regular schedule. Needless
to say that we're behind schedule! We will be updating the beta version on
the HOT3000 page in the next day or so.</span></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="761375016-23012012">Thanks for your interest,</span></font></div>
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<p><span lang="en-us"><font color="#0000ff">Jeff Blake, P.Eng.<br><font size="1">H<span class="761375016-23012012">OT3000 Team Lead</span><br></font></font><font color="#0000ff" size="1" face="Arial Narrow"><br>www.canmetENERGY.nrcan.gc.ca</font></span><font color="#0000ff">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><br></div><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a > <br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")</div></div></body></html>