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From: cdh1@eds1.UUCP (C. Daniel Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Crippleware
Message-ID: <592@eds1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 90 16:05:00 GMT
References: <1376@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>
Organization: EDS - Senate of Pennsylvania
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jmorriso@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
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>I am talking about UNICOM. It seems other programers didn't like letting users
>try out their software like GCP (no longer shareware. If he let people try
>it out, maybe he would have had some success with it.) 

>Someone said the new unicom would have the annoying features disabled.
>I've got version 2, and I don't see any reference to a temporary license
>number, so all I can asssume is that the program is almost completely
>CRIPPLED until you plunk down $45 US, or almost $60 Canadian. I might as well

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I also am frustrated with Unicom.  I wanted a package that would allow
"host-mode" access in the background under Windows.  I paid to register
the darn thing before discovering that it doesn't do the ANSI emulation
like it claims, it saves log files with all of the ANSI codes instead of
a translated to ASCII text so they are almost useless, and its host mode
is broken:  I have not been able to upload to a Unicom host except through
another Unicom caller, so it is useless.  Calls to Data Graphics were
met with the request to upgrade to version 2.0 for $20.  However, the
ANSI emulation does not appear to have been fixed nor the Log facility.

Upgrade? Fat chance!

CD Hassell
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