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From: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP-3000 users
Message-ID: <1990Jul28.001507.147@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 00:15:07 GMT
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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>from: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)

Good to know that at least there is another 3k user around!
As some time ago I left a question about the format of AdvLink directories
and no one wrote a single word I guessed that there were no 3k users.
I left my question also in Support Line, they call me the next morning to
clarify what I wanted and a few days later but only to said that no one
knew the format of this file. The questions from outside USA are routed to
the local support, this is a painly slow procedure. For certain questions
I prefer the users experience more than the HP 'official point of view'.
Most of the questions I have asked HP in the last 10 years are still waiting
for a reply. Two years ago I found that in certain conditions one of the
procedures in SL did funny things. I reported the bug and as I need urgently
a patch or a workaround I put myself to debug the SL procedure. I found the
error (a Byte pointer loaded from a Word pointer without shifting) and
patched the SL reporting all to the Labs. One year later and 4 MIT's after
the problem still was there. As the segment was modified I must look for the
new location of the bad instruction and patch it again 4 times! Each time I
modified the SL I reported it. Well now I would like to find some 1k user!

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