> for WordPerfect 3.5e (classic application). What would that cost? Thanks,
> > for WordPerfect 3.5e (classic application). What would that cost? Thanks,
>
> Ask 100 developers and you'll get 100 different costs. You'll get
> farther if you say what you're willing to pay, and what you're expecting
> to get for your money.
I'm told (by a competent developer who doesn't have time for it right now) that
it's a few lines of code in C or Objective C - Apple has provided a framework
for it. What I'm expecting to get is a file the user can put in the right
directory, that causes files of a certain type to be indexed. That's as much as
I know about it. I don't know what such a project would or should cost, so was
asking for estimates.

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Jhnny Fvrt (it means "Wrote His Own Newsreader") - 28 May 2005 05:24 GMT
> I'm told (by a competent developer who doesn't have time for it right
> now) that it's a few lines of code in C or Objective C - Apple has
> provided a framework for it.
i don't know if this is a help for you or not, but here's my impression: by
saying that, you just lost me. i would certainly never bid on a project
that was described like that. some *other* programmer says it should be
"only a few lines," so now *i've* got to live by that, even though this
other programmer wasn't willing to write those "only a few lines,"
suspiciously enough? no thanks.
this smells to me like something that you want to pay next to nothing for,
that will be a whole lot more work than this supposedly competent programmer
said it would.