Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Subject: Re: VAULT problems Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Mon, 24 Dec 90 03:40:49 GMT Message-ID: <1990Dec24.034049.21799@watmath.waterloo.edu> References: <1990Dec19.132054.28228@watmath.waterloo.edu> <27875@cs.yale.edu> Lines: 36 In article <27875@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes: >In article <1990Dec19.132054.28228@watmath.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes: ... >>Remember Turtle? Turtle insists that it be in control of everything. ... >Please, keep your cool and don't start speculations flying on the net. >All that Lars reported is that he has a problem running THE VAULT and >DCACHE together. We don't know what the problem is, but we are trying >to find it. Meanwhile, don't run them together. They both apparently >work fine for most people most of the time when used separately. >TURTLE, too, seems to work well for many people, and I don't >understand your implicit criticism of it. Sorry. This was not intended to be a criticism of either VAULT or DCACHE. I am sure both are fine programs, but I have used only one, with no complaints. My criticism, if there was one, was implicit indeed, and would be more precisely aimed at the absence of a central direction or control in the development of software. I suspect that many users have found instances, as I have, of software, each one fine by itself, which clash with each other, because of assumptions made by the author. In some case *I assume* that these programmer assumptions include making use of so called "illegal" locations in the system. I do not wish to impune the integrity of any author here. I am sure that each does the best that she/he can with what is at hand, and I am grateful to a number of authors of fine software for the work that they have done. Again, sorry. -- Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1 Internet: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu UUCP: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!ljdickey X.400: ljdickey@watmath.UWaterloo.ca BITNET: ljdickey@watdcs.bitnet