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From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Animato)
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Subject: Re: Lattice, er, Lettuce strikes again
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Date: 17 Mar 90 21:32:30 GMT
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In article <424@oregon.oacis.org> jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen) writes:
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=-
=-  >[Warning, severe flames and strong language ahead]
=-
=-I've known some primadonnas in my time, but you, sir, are one of the
=-worst.
=-
=-  >*SMALL* number of the 5.04 disks were bad, is send out a set of
=-  >5.05 MASTERS.  Not the manuals, just the masters.  Hell, they must
=-  >have them, after all - what are they selling?
=-
=-Sheesh! What a bone-head! First of all, if they don't have a fix yet
=-they probably aren't shipping anything. They'll probably hold shipment

Wake up, Meissen.  Is anyone home?  Of COURSE Lettuce has fixes, after all,
most people are having no problems with 5.05, because most people got good
5.04 patches.  The problem is with the bad 5.04 patches.  Like I said, what
do you think Lattice is shipping?  


[note: this next part was written by Bryan Beyerdorffer]

>	Actually, all the bonehead (no hyphen, look it up) had to do was ask
>nicely.  I had one of the bad 5.04 patches, and Lattice promptly shipped me the
>whole 5.05 disk set after I called them and explained the problem.  I know they 
>did the same for at least one other person.

Two things:

1) See Mr. Meissen - Lettuce DOES have fixed copies - plenty of them.  It's 
   what you get if you were to go and buy Lettuce C right now.

2) Actually, Mr. Beyerdorffer, I did ask nicely for a set of 5.05 masters,
   since I know of 5 (6 including you) who have had problems and have just 
   had Lettuce ship them the 5.05 masters.  However, the person in
   Technical Stupidity that I talked to told me that doing so is out of the
   question and that my only option is to wait 2+ weeks until a fix is out.
   I then asked him if I could be sent a copy of the GOOD 5.04 patch.
   He told me no - that I was stuck with the bad 5.04 patch and therefore
   a useless 5.05 patch for at least 2 weeks.

   Now, please tell me - who is the bonehead?

   If the Lettuce Technical Stupidity department and Customer Screwovers
   are clueless as to what is going on, then they deserve whatever flames
   I care to send their way.


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