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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: VAULT problems
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.180207.194@uvm.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 90 18:02:07 GMT
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(L.J.Dickey) writes (eariler):
> ....
>>>Remember Turtle?  Turtle insists that it be in control of everything.
> ....

> Then, in article <27875@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu 
(Michael Fischer) writes:

>>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.

From article <1990Dec24.034049.21799@watmath.waterloo.edu>, 
by ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) replies:
 
> 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. 
....(small omission)
> 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
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I am tired of conflicting programs too.  Those reviews that people
(myself included) should be writing for c.s.a.st and atari.archive
should include compatability testing.  I would also like to read
reviews of peoples' working systems that *do*not*conflict!  

On a related topic, is it too much to ask for people to write single
purpose programs?  The glut of "everything but the kitchen sink" stuff
means I can't pick the best, or I have to waste precious memory with
DAs that duplicate functions.
just my expensive $0.02, 8-)
			    Bob Pegram

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