Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcars223!fortinp
From: fortinp@bcars223.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Re: Prentice Hall can't deliver!
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.040454.25344@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Summary: Wanna trade a collection agency for 1.3?
Sender: kratz@bnrgate.bnr.ca (Geoff Kratz
Geoff Kratz)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Ottawa Ontario CANADA
References: <328.26cc0d0a@cai.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 90 04:04:54 GMT

In article <328.26cc0d0a@cai.com>, manager@cai.com writes:
> Got your asbestos suit ready?

You can get all the help flaming you need (from me) if you want it...
> 
> I've been battling with Prentice Hall for weeks now trying to get a
> copy of Minix. 

Lucky you; I've been battling since ... (Hmmm, it's been so long, I forget 
if I started last year, or early this year)

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>                                                          This time,
> they told me that the warehouse informed them that there was no stock
> on the Minix distribution and the charge that they issued to my credit
> card would be refunded. [At this point, it is appropriate to note my
> deranged expression and scarlet coloring.] When I pushed the issue
> about the warehouse being out of stock, she recanted and said that the
> warehouse was reporting 'limited' stock but that she couldn't tell
> whether there really was any or not. Now I'm waiting for a supervisor
> to call me back...

Well, *I* can tell you *why* they don't have *your* copy, I've got it!
I've posted a very brief overview in another message, but the short of it
is that I have 1.3 for the IBM-PC _and_ PH's collection agency on my back
as a result of their inability to READ what they publish (THEIR registration
card reads "Atari ST", yet they send diskettes for IBM-PCs).  
> 
> The moral of the story? (1) Don't order the express shipment from
> Prentice Hall, as you are only wasting your money. (2) Don't order
> anything from Prentice Hall, as you are only wasting your money. IMHO,
> Prentice Hall is not sufficiently responsible to handle software
> distributions, much less book distributions, if they can screw up an
> order *three* times in a row.

The moral of my dilema is: DON'T send in Atari ST registration cards.
> 
> Would some kind soul please help me get a copy of 1.3 or 1.5 Minix for
> the PC so I can get started while I turn grey (and red) waiting for
> Prentice Hall to get their *(&^( together?

Like I say in my summary: "Wanna trade a collection agency for 1.3?"
> 
> THANKS!

You're welcome.
> 
> --  
> Todd Aven 
> Manager, Mid-range Computer Services 
> Computer Associates International
> 
> Internet:	manager@cai.com
> UUCP:		uupsi!usgcdh!manager

Pierre Fortin 
fortinp@bnr.ca