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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v08i108: checktd, response from the author....
Keywords: shareware
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.105211.21451@uwasa.fi>
Date: 12 Oct 90 10:52:11 GMT
References: <2022@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Oct5.103423.8051@uwasa.fi> <5996@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
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In article <5996@minyos.xx.rmit.oz> rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Owen Baker) writes:
>As I wrote the utilities that are being commented on here I felt I should
>respond to some of them to at least give another view. I hope no one is 

Since this may have some general interest, I'll post instead of
emailing. 

>>ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>>author.  Perhaps I'm too harsh, but in my opinion (with one
>>exception) they fail to reach a fair quality limit for
>>comp.binaries.ibm.pc. 
>
>Hmmmmmmm, I am not really sure what you mean by "fair quality limit".
>Maybe you should give us some guidelines? As regards the relability of
>programs I could not agree more but as to the "usefullness" I feel that is up
>to the end users. I can only say that I have had many postive responses

Very difficult.  This is where a moderator's judgement (AND time) is
needed.  The binaries are, of course, up to Bill, but at
chyde.uwasa.fi submissions (those which I moderate) I look at the
user interface, documentation, the program's principal task and how
the program achieves it, and a very subjective feel of general
usefulness.  It's a little like refereeing a scientific journal, but
much much more subjective.  I cannot give any strict quantitative
guidelines.

>
>>CHECKTD 
:
>Sorry I dont agree, what is wrong with it as a standalone program? The
>advantages as I see it are that it is quick to load being so small and

Here may have a misunderstanding.  There is nothing wrong with a
standalone program per se.  Rather it is the distribution of such a
standalone program separately, which obviously would be better at
home in a collection of similar utilities.  This one was (in my
opinion) too trivial for separate distribution.  Some users were
obviously also peeved (to use your verb) about the shareware idea
for a program that can be written in "ten minutes" (to quote one
email) by anyone with a fair MsDos programming background. 

>>CURSOR
:
>
>Yes, I have tried your program and its very good but I do not always want
>TSR's loaded for various reasons. I also like to be able to unload them
>without resorting to rebooting or MARK and RELEASE and I was unable to find
>a way to do this quickly.

This doesn't concern your programs, but mine.  I'll comment anyway. 
Here you obviously failed to notice that the package
/pc/ts/tsutld18.arc also contains a nonresident version of cursor
adjustment. 

>BUT I appreciate your opinion, it's nice to get some constructive feedback
>for a change, thanks.

I am very pleased to see that you take it this way.  And my purpose
was trying to be constructive, both from the point of the binary
postings, and yours.  Invective never gets us anywhere, anyway. 

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun