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From: reyn@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Upgrades from Prentice Hall
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Date: 25 Oct 89 13:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!reyn    Oct 25 08:58:00 1989


When I received my Minix 1.3 from Prentice Hall, I dutifully filled out my
registration card to become an official type Minix owner.  On the
registration card is a checkbox for "Please send me updates."  Being a
reasonably normal person I thought to myself "Sure, why not? I'd really
like to get 1.4 when it's official".

To my great surprise, I received in the mail my first official Minix update
from Andy Tannebaum himself (via PH).  Ripping open the package with glee I
found inside my official upgrade kit to Minix 1.3!!!  Er.... but it was 1.3
that I purchased originally?  Sigh.  I've written PH the nicest letter I
could bear to and have returned the offensive package from whence it came.

So if Andy happens to read this, could you perhaps suggest to PH that they
need to pay a little more attention to what they're doing before they send
me a bill for $37.50 for software I'd already purchased from them.

			   Thanks in advance,
					     John Reynolds