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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-DIAL and OnLine
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Date: 6 Oct 89 07:08:52 GMT
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In article <13972@well.UUCP> brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard) writes:
>In article <20290@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>I'd like to know user's experiences with Microsoft DIAL (Direct Information
>>Access Line System) and Microsoft OnLine for electronic tech support. 
>>Are they worth the (large) expense?

>Marco, I thought you were strictly Amiga!  Good to see you here as well.

Hi, Brent. Yea, can't put all the eggs in one basket ;-) MS-Windows seems to
be taking off, so we've decided to do a product for it (I've *almost* signed
off with my publisher).

> I do a LOT of Windows programming, and my company has used DIAL and currently
>subscribes to OnLine.  DIAL is dead -- OnLine is the replacement.  There are
>a lot of quirks with OnLine -- slow file transfers, slow everything in fact.
>This wouldn't be so bad, except that you are billed for excess usage.

What is this "excess usage". Are accounts allotted a max time/month or
something like that and billed differently when exceding that amount?

[...]

> We'd very often be lost without the service.  Recommended for serious
>development.

>brent southard  (313) 656-8349   |   usenet:  ...!well!brent
>ImageTech Corp  (313) 362-3141   |   
 ^^^^^^^^^
What kinds of MS-Windows products does ImageTech have?  On a similar subject,
I've read that there are a number of products that "facilitate" MS-Windows 
programming, and others that provide a "uniform" interface to both MS-Windows 
and OS/2/PM allowing easy portability.  What are usenetter's esperiences and
recommendations for these?   What I'd be afraid of is the "extra" overhead that
must be instruced by this extra interface.  If these items have been covered
extensively previously on this group, please just e-mail. Thank you.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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