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From: miket@mars.cs.umbc.edu (Mike Taube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Coherent, anybody? FORGET IT!
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Date: 8 Jul 90 03:25:46 GMT
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Well, I've just gotten fed up with Coherent.. Here are just a few reasons why:

        1) uncompress will only work 12bits and below. 99% of the stuff on
           the uunet gateways is compressed with 16bits

        2) the editor will not allow you to edit moderately sized files.. it
           truncates them.. and worse, the version of microemacs is pathetic.
           no c-mode is built in, that is.

        3) the ``scat'' program that comes with coherent is supposed to be
           like the Unix ``more'' program. HA! the Return key scrolls the
           screen, while the Space bar gives you lines at a time. Totally 
           opposite ``more''.

        4) A program as small as ``less'', which is like Unix's ``more'', but
           more (pardon the pun), is too LARGE for Coherent. 

        5) No csh. For me, no csh implies no real job control, aliases,
           or history

Now tell me, if I can't even compile a file browser program, then how am I
suppposed to build any kind of applications with this? Granted, I understand
that "you get what you pay for", but how can they say that this is comparable
to SCO ???

Mike Taube

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