(Updated)
From an excellent view article:
A platform-independent path to a Domino server, database, and document:
Example:
USELSX
“!:::<ItemID/Attachment>”
Written by Willie Arbuckle.
Willie - is this still supported ? I cant get this to work in version 6.0.1…
Cheers,
----* Bill
Subject: *Never seen it, but let me know if you find it.
Subject: 
No worries - usual rules apply!
Yes - I recall seeing it on a note about four months ago, and thinking “Wow - cool - have to use that”. And then completely forgetting where I saw it… Sigh.
D’oh!
So - Ben - do you have the most amount of “commercial” (as in People pay money for them) LSX’s out there ? Does this make you the God of commercial LSX’s ?
–* Bill
Subject: RE:
According to IBM I have the most successful LSX on the planet (makes a nice quote at least). I just wish there were a few more close after me to validate the technology. Anyway, for Midas, I have over 800,000 licensed users and hundreds of licensed server in 42 countries on six continents (can’t seem to find anyone in Antarctica who needs it, but I’ll keep trying). I guess that makes me a good model for commercial LSX’s, but a God? I’m not sure. Wait until I reach 2 million or so, I’m guessing. I sure do like the technology, as do my three kids who are facing college in the next few years.
Subject: RE:
I sure do like the technology, as do my three kids who are facing college in the next few years.
Hmmm… You’re going to have to show me how you make a buck out of this technology malarkey Ben…
–
Subject: Ditto…
We’ve been at the iDM stuff (http://www.hadsl.com) in a depressed tech market for a year… Killer product, real ROI savings… But its still tough.
—* Bill
Subject: *Persevere! That is the most important thing.
Subject: I wish I knew
Well, besides the obvious “Make a product that solves problems people have, then let them have it for a reasonable price”, I haven’t a clue. Working like a charm now with a couple of products, but you weren’t paying attention when I put my first product out (OS/2 utilities, took 18 months, sold one copy for $75) or my second or my third, etc. Thank goodness something finally worked, or I’d have to do consulting, which I’ve sworn I’ll never do.
Subject: RE: I wish I knew
Which OS/2 utilities product was that one Ben? I was heavily into OS/2…
Stephen Lister
Subject: RE: I wish I knew
Unless you bought the one copy, you probably never heard of it. It actually had two parts, a set of command line tools that did some really cool stuff and was my first experimentation with writing an engine and adding functionality around it, and the same executable worked in both DOS and native OS/2 (built to be portable). I still use a few techniques I worked out then in @YourCommand and Midas, and possibly even some of the same code. The other part was a graphical navigator built using PM, which encompasses many of the same functions. It was a cool way of managing files, doing global search and replace type stuff. In some ways, a crude version for files and file systems of what Midas does for rich text. You never completely escape your roots.
The product was called the Genii Toolkit 1.0. Never made it to 1.1. And yes, the company was already called Genii Software. A friend and I decided to go into business together (thus the plural name), but split again before getting very far, and I made up the name so I kept it. Anyway, that is the sad and sordid story of the Genii Toolkit, which I still have and which still works under Windows XP in command line mode. The date on my executable is from 1991, which is not the oldest software I still use on a regular basis (that is from 1989, I think), but close.
One cool thing about the command line utilities (I can still summon up enthusiasm for these things) is that there are about ten different command line utilities, which are all exactly the same executable. It actually looked at its own name to determine what it should do, so ff.exe would find files (over or under a certain size, between a date range, with certain attributes, etc), while ts.exe would search files and sa.exe would set attributes, etc. But every one was the same executable, and the installation simply copied them eleven times with different names. Cool, eh?
So, enough about me. What did you do in OS/2?
Subject: RE: I wish I knew
I picked up OS/2 2.1 as a personal choice (didn’t like M$ back then either) while I was running my own comic shop. When I sold that I ended up looking for an IT job, and ended up with IBM on the strength of what I’d taught myself about OS/2.
I started on the IBM Australia/New Zealand/South-East Asia OS/2 support desk. Moved to IBM BESTeam support. BESTeam = Business Enterprise Solutions Team - basically I supported every piece of software that IBM produced at the time. Some of them I’d never heard of until people called up about them. Weird job…
I was a LAN Server administrator for a long while (again for IBM) and ended up moving across into Notes while I was there. The rest is, as they say, history
Stephen Lister
Subject: * That’s the weirdest thing I’ve heard in ages. I love it. =P-)
Subject: *The identical executables, or which part?
Subject: * Yes, those!! =B-)