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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: CSHOW (was Re: Slide Show Program Wanted)
Message-ID: <OTTO.90Oct30190637@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 30 Oct 90 18:06:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pasky@cg-atla.UUCP's message of 25 Oct 90 11:38:42 GMT

In article <9191@cg-atla.UUCP> pasky@cg-atla.UUCP (Robert Pasky) writes:
   I just got the latest CSHOW from SIMTEL (CSHW821B.ZIP) and it seems
   to have an annoying problem. Every time I run the program it displays
   a message saying that it can't find the README.EXE/*.DOC files, etc.
   and just sits there for 15 seconds. I unzipped the whole thing as
   received from SIMTEL and the "missing" files are right there in same
   (current) directory with the program (e:\gif if it matters). I even
   tried putting them all in a directory specified in my PATH with the
   same results.

For some funny reason, Canyon State Systems has decided that the program should
check for presence of ALL the documentation etc. files in the same directory as
the original, every time it is started.  This means that you cannot delete the
document files once you have read them etc.

Then they goofed.  The "full" version comes with README.EXE, which will self-
extract necessary documents on request, plus the install program which will
generate the needed drivers.  The "lite" version comes only with some .doc
files and no drivers.  AND THEY FORGOT ABOUT THE TEST IN CSHOW.EXE !

#1 is truly annoying for us with never enough disk space, #2 is unacceptable
for a shareware product.  I've switched to vpic.  Too bad.
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