To: "Terry Leeper" <tleeper@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: MASM references
From: Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@easystreet.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:16:01 -0800

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:45:46 -0800, you wrote:

>I was referenced to your webpage
>http://www.easystreet.com/~jkirwan/pctools.html by some folks using MASM
>and I had a couple of comments.  First of all, I wanted to thank you for
>your support of MASM.  We at Microsoft recognize this as an important
>product and a sizable user base.  Secondly, I would like to ask you to
>only point folks to MASM via the DDK and avoiding non-Microsoft sites.
>This keeps users on the latest version as we are not shipping MASM as a
>stand-alone product anymore.  Please feel free to contact me regarding
>this.
>
>Terry Leeper
>Program Manager
>Visual C++

Thanks for writing.  Frankly, I've had exactly two written responses
of a direct nature from Microsoft in coming on close to 25 years (I
used a paper-tape BASIC, back in the Altair 8800/Imsai days.)  That
second one is yours, today.  And the first has a story of its own.

I'd like to take you up on the offer of contacting you, but if it is
okay with you I'd rather use the phone.  There are some quick
questions I'd like to ask which would be much more quickly disposed of
that way.  The page you mentioned above has a lot of elements to it
which I'd like to improve and I think it could be made much better as
a result.

Would you be kind enough to either call me at (xxx) xxx-xxxx or
xxx-xxxx (I work out of my home, 24 hrs a day) or else provide me with
a phone number I can call and a better time to try?

Jon