Re: Re[2]: Leave FCS3.0 alone.

Jim Houston (jim.houston@stjude.org)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:24:25 -0500 (CDT)

I would like to see FCS3.0 left alone. There are many users in Flow who
have no idea what the capablilities of the FCS standard are or what it
does for them.

I have seen the world of flow data stored differently by each vendor. Let
us not go back to that. FCS has served the flow world well.

Let us also not forget the backyard flow persons who dabble at programming
on their spare time to make FCS work for them. Who share code and ideas.
Reformating FCS to meet specific clincal needs is a bit self centered for
those requesting that this be done. Those who have full time programmers
or those that sell products for data analysis are needed to help users,
not to dictate what they need.

Jim Houston


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