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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Proper Grammar sucks
Keywords: bugs, bugs, bugs
Message-ID: <1613@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 8 May 91 14:20:04 GMT
References: <1597@tronsbox.xei.com> <14729@hacgate.UUCP>
Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS
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In article <14729@hacgate.UUCP> koo@tcville.UUCP (Frances Koo) writes:
|Most first versions of software seem to have bugs hidden somewhere.  Most
|importantly, will the company will make the necessary changes to get it
|working?  Did you call them about the bug?
|
|The reason I asked was that I had pretty good experience with Pen Pal.
|When I called them up about a bug with my printer, I was very specific
|about the problem.  They fixed it in one of the three free upgrades I
|received (without asking).  I assume this probably also depends on the
|difficulty of the bug fix.

	I've gotten loads of free upgrades to PenPal, too- they HAD to be free,
the blasted program didn't work AT ALL when I got it.  It was still about six
months before I could get ANY work done with PenPal, and I expect it'll be 
about six months before I get any work done with Proper Grammar.  Besides,
there is a BIG difference between a first release that has a bug "hidden
somewhere" and one that crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME you run it.  I have to ask if
anyone USED this software before it was shipped.

	Last night, I dragged PG over to a friends's house to try it on his
machine, with 3 megs of ram and a hard drive.  It worked without crashing, but
we noticed that the free ram went down and down as it ran.  Presumably, it is
loading the grammar rules into ram as they're used.  At its peak, it took just
over a meg of ram, so we concluded that it was crashing on my machine because
it was running out of memory and was too stupid to know it.  We also discovered
that you can't change the abysmal font it uses, even by mucking around with the
font files.


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