R.I.P Phil Barnett

[Klas Engwall]

Hi all,

Members of the comp.lang.clipper newsgroup have discovered that one of
the pillars of the Clipper/Harbour community passed away a little over a
year ago, on April 16, 2015. You can read about him here:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=145271194

Phil was one of the most important persons when the Harbour project was
originally started. The crew page at http://harbour.github.io/crew.html
lists him as "Harbour Manager" and "Keeper of Pieces and Parts".

Phil was also the keeper of the Oasis, the source code archive most of
us have visited many times over the last couple of decades.

The domain name the-oasis.net as well as harbour-project.org belonged to
Phil. Both have been auto-renewed this year, but the server is now off
line - which answers the question "Where did www.harbour-project.org go?"

A copy of The Oasis is however still available at the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160303203834/http://www.the-oasis.net/

Thank you, Phil, for everything you have done for the Clipper/Harbour
community for such a long time.

Klas

[Steve Litt]

Hi Klas,

Phil was twice past president of Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals, so
the Orlando Linux community is also extremely sad about his passing.

There's a slight chance I might be able to put you in touch with a guy
who might have Oasis backups. Let me try.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt
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[Klas Engwall]

Hi Steve,

> Phil was twice past president of Linux Enthusiasts and Professionals, so
> the Orlando Linux community is also extremely sad about his passing.
>
> There's a slight chance I might be able to put you in touch with a guy
> who might have Oasis backups. Let me try.

Thanks. Or maybe we could get it from the Wayback Machine? But whatever
we do, we should have an OK from the family.

Regards,
Klas

[Andi Jahja]

RIP Phil.

Klas, I remember many years ago Ross McKenzie of Valuesoft was delegated to re-arrange the Oasis by Phil.
Ross was an active ClipperHead from Australia.
Perhaps somebody could find him:

ross.valuso...@gmail.com

Andi

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[vszakats]

This is very sad :( Clipper/Harbour community, and myself

personally owe a tremendous amount to Phil, starting from taking 

my little lame duck software called 'dst' under his wings, The Oasis,

keeping the spirit high on comp.lang.clipper. And perhaps most

importantly leading this very project from the earliest days for many

years, while providing and managing website, mailing lists (whatever

was needed), while always keeping up a friendly and positively 

professional spirit.

Thank you Phil! RIP.

-Viktor

[Klas Engwall]

Hi Andi,

> RIP Phil.
>
> Klas, I remember many years ago Ross McKenzie of Valuesoft was delegated
> to re-arrange the Oasis by Phil.
> Ross was an active ClipperHead from Australia.
> Perhaps somebody could find him:
>
> ross.valuso...@gmail.com

Yes, Ross is a valued friend from many discussions on comp.lang.clipper

He usually pops up there once or twice a year when Clipper users need
help recovering source code from binaries. I didn't know he was involved
with the Oasis, though. I'll keep him in mind. Thanks for the info.

Here is a pretty long thread I found that starts with The Oasis moving
to a new server 16 years ago and ends in I-a-not-quite-sure-what :-)

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.clipper/RvOPO5FscP0/Bqnsjs5w-8wJ

Regards,
Klas

[esgici]

 Klas Engwall wrote:

Thank you, Phil, for everything you have done for the Clipper/Harbour
community for such a long time.

Klas

+1 

[Massimo Belgrano]

2016-06-02 21:50 GMT+02:00 Klas Engwall <har...@engwall.com>:

Thank you, Phil, for everything you have done for the Clipper/Harbour community for such a long time.

+1

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[luis vasquez]

A great loss to the world xBase. I remember being a regular visitor to your page and see the amount of contributions staying there.
Una gran pérdida para el mundo xbase.  Me recuerdo haber sido un asiduo visitante de su pagina y ver la gran cantidad de aportes alojados ahi.

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[Pritpal Bedi]

A sad news indeed!

May Lord rest him in peace.

Pritpal Bedi 

[Rafa Carmona]

Muchas gracias a Phil por esos años que pase en un ¡OASIS!

R.I.P

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Rafa Carmona

[Giovanni Di Maria]

R.i.p.

Giovanni

[Teo Fonrouge]

:-(

RIP Phil Barnett 

[elch]

i do *not* wish him 'rest in peace', he may spook ever around us,

alike one looking helpfull over your shoulders ...

great respects!

Klas, please try to contact family, who have to clean after him, a very serious question to us all, when the time comes ..

Rolf

[Koshal Agarwal]

may GOD keep him with HIM always 

[Feleciano Buenavista]

Maraming salamat Phil Barnett.
Mabuhay! From Philippines.

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[Pete]

That's sad news. :-(
shall remember him as a man who well knew how to exercise the art of collaboration,
not in words but in practice and always in a positive,calm manner for the benefit of  wide
clipper (and early harbour) community! - thanks Phil. "Fair winds and following seas!"

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[Budyanto Dj.]

R.I.P Phil Barnett _/|\_

budyanto

[Klas Engwall]

Hi Rolf,

> Klas, please try to contact family, who have to clean after him, a very
> serious question to us all, when the time comes ..

As a start, and as suggested by Andi, I have tried to reach out to Ross
McKenzie in an attempt to find out what he might know. I will report
back here how that develops.

Regards,
Klas

[alkresin]

Very sad news...
He was born in 1953. Not an old man yet, he would have to go on living.

Alexander.

[Jose F. Gimenez]

Hi,

very sad to read this bad news :-(

RIP, Phil


Regards,

Jose F. Gimenez
http://www.xailer.com
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[Maurizio la Cecilia]

Oasis has been the most important repository since the Clipper raising days
and I think that the Harbour community has a debt to Phil for his effective work in newsletter communication, web maintenance and sharing code, a bridge to the open source concept.
My thanks to him. I hope that Oasis will live forever, to remember our pioneering age.
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Maurizio

[Alejandro Padrino]

d.e.p. :-(

[Francesco Saverio Giudice]

R.I.P. Phil Barnett

Francesco

[Przemyslaw Czerpak]

R.I.P. Phil Barnett.

That's very sad news for Clipper/Harbour
community and for me personally.

Phil, you were the great man always helpful
who was showing us the best way for positive
cooperation. You were the real leader,
good man and the exmpale to folow.
May God keep you with Him always.

Przemek.

[António]

R.I.P. Phil.

And thank you so much.


I have a copy of www.the-oasis.net, obtained via wget in April 2011. Will make it available in case it's needed. It's in a 77Mb tarball.

I'll never be able to give back as much as I have benefited from c.l.c & harbour, but if there is anything within my possibilities I'll be more than happy to start.

António Vila-Chã
Portugal

[Andi Jahja]

Hi Antonio,

Glad to hear that you got a copy of The Oasis. Could you share it via .. let's say DropBox or the like? I would be ready to mirror it on my server.

Thanks.

 Andi

Sent from my Samsung device

[António]

Hi Andi,

Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ff3n3x3cngui0f7/the_oasis.tgz?dl=0

Regards,
António Vila-Chã

[Andi Jahja]

Hi António,

 

Thanks for  sharing it. At a glance, I noticed that the archive is missing css and script folders, so it's bad if it is mirrored as-is.

Let me see what I can do, or if anybody could help, it would be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks again.

 

Andi

 

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 12:00:36 -0700 (PDT)

António <nop0...@sapo.pt> wrote:

 

Hi Andi,

Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ff3n3x3cngui0f7/the_oasis.tgz?dl=0

Regards,
António Vila-Chã


Em quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2016 12:12:52 UTC+1, Andi Jahja escreveu:

Hi Antonio,

Glad to hear that you got a copy of The Oasis. Could you share it via .. let's say DropBox or the like? I would be ready to mirror it on my server.

Thanks.

 Andi

Sent from my Samsung device

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From: António <nop0...@sapo.pt>
Date: 06/08/2016 17:01 (GMT+07:00)
To: Harbour Users <harbou...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [harbour-users] Re: R.I.P Phil Barnett

R.I.P. Phil.

And thank you so much.


I have a copy of www.the-oasis.net, obtained via wget in April 2011. Will make it available in case it's needed. It's in a 77Mb tarball.

I'll never be able to give back as much as I have benefited from c.l.c & harbour, but if there is anything within my possibilities I'll be more than happy to start.

António Vila-Chã
Portugal

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[vszakats]

I'm in the process uploading it to:

https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/

Git repository:

https://github.com/harbour/the-oasis

Current problem is some index files are either

missing or present with a Windows shortname.

[vszakats]

Should be working now.

https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/

[Andi Jahja]

Hi Viktor,

 

Great job!

Thanks.

 

Andi

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[Alex Strickland]

Hi Viktor

Should be working now.

https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/

Wow, amazing. What a tribute.

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Alex

 

[Maurizio la Cecilia]

Hi Viktor, thanks a lot. That was my wish. I hope that the generation of sixty Clipper/Harbour guys will be happy as I'm and as Phil should be, I'm sure.
Thanks again.
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Maurizio

Il 09/giu/2016 01:00, "vszakats" <vsza...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

Should be working now.

https://harbour.github.io/the-oasis/

[Teo Fonrouge]

Excellent as always Viktor, thanks.

best regards,

Teo

[Com1 Software]

Very sad to hear.
He will be missed.

[SD]

Indeed a very sad news....and coming to know about it so late! RIP!!

Long time back while looking for Clipper resources, discovered his site "Oasis" - was amazed to see the collection of Clipper source codes and tools. Though it was a late discovery for me, still it helped me in many ways. And through this site came to know about PHIL BARNETT, the person behind this great project. Never communicated with him, but always carried high respect for him for his such valuable contribution.

Thanks Klas Engwall for passing this news.

Regards,

Swapan Das

  

 

[Luzemário Dantas]

Some things are eternal.

The year is 2026, only now, I am aware Phil has passed away.

Thanks to Phil, I learnt the meaning of the word "outstanding" in portuguese language, when I suggested him a Clipper lib to use, circa 1994. I was a young student at the time, and the Internet was in it's infancy. I had never spoken to a foreigner before. This affected me deeply. Whenever I hear someone saying "outstanding" Phil came to my memory again.

Good to hear that Phil was a Linux addict, I did not know. I am using Linux for 27+ years as my primary operating system. Phil was always a smart and curious man. He always came up with good ideas overnight; I don't think he even slept while he was thinking about them. But, with the digital world, we are seeing our lives vanishing every day, and our knowledge is going lost.

The Phil's webpage was taken by some stupid gambling hacker, but the texts are there yet, to catch a bit of SEO. It's sad. But on the other side, I am very glad to see you make a real tribute to him.

Thank you guys for keeping his ideas.

I hope you all are in good health condition.

Cheers.

[Luzemário Dantas]

This appear to not be working anymore. However, the Dropbox file link works.

[Yakano]

+1

R.I.P Phil Barnett