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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: help!
Message-ID: <279d4d43:1747.5comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 09:40:14 GMT
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Kevin Jessup asks if his calendar program is the only bugged program on
the EduCALC "Goodies" Disk.  Kevin, I'm happy and unhappy to reassure you
that there are SEVEN (ugh!) files with problems... and yours is the least
significant bug of the batch!  The worst is that USRLIB.EXE has a big
chunk of plain ASCII text somehow wedged right into the middle of what
should be pure machine garbage.  It seems that something happened to the
directory during the mass production.  It's already been fixed (copies
now going out are okay), and it won't happen with disks 2 or 3, both of
which are ready for mass production.  #2 is Derek Nickel's "Voyager 5",
and #3 is just lots more goodies.

By the way, Kevin, your updated calendar program is on disk #3.  I sure
hope it's okay!

Talk about getting calls at all hours...  Folks keep calling me and
saying "Hi, how do you run that game on the disk?"  I say, what game;
they say "You mean you don't know what it's called?"

My favorite was the guy who called from God knows where, said that he ran
one of the programs on the disk (he didn't say which), and it gave him "a
lot of trouble" (he didn't say what kind), and he wanted me to tell him
what happened (right!), and asked me to call him back (and never left his
phone number on the tape!).  Just goes to show you no amount of brilliant
software can compensate for deficient hardware...         [-jkh-]