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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message
Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh
Message-ID: <1991May19.105543.4455@pegasus.com>
Date: 19 May 91 10:55:43 GMT
References: <1991May10.112405.7053@anomaly.sbs.com> <1991May15.203838.22946@pegasus.com> <1991May17.013633.8848@anomaly.sbs.com>
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In article <1991May17.013633.8848@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
>
>>Seriously if you use nothing else but logic, how do you explain the 1000s of
>>other Clipper developers who are using 5.01 successfully ?  You can't think
>>that I'm doing it wrong since I don't crash.
>
>Easy. Nantucket wants to insure a "bug free" release, and the best way to
>insure that is to implement the policy of stating every tech support call
>is a "problem with your program".
>
Michael... I think we're going to have to end the discussion since anyone
can plainly see that it makes no sense any more.  Even if Nantucket had a
recording that simply stated that it was the programmers' fault it would
not explain why I haven't received the errors you mention and that I
personally know about 100 people (very well) that are using 5.01.

You remain irrational with your explanations and continue to think that
the product must behave as you believe it does and not how it truely
operates.  No, I'm not talking about the first error, I'm talking about
your insistence that the load size displayed by the linker is some sort
of absolute number which it plainly is not.  It is an estimate based upon
what the linker knows and the linker doesn't know what Clipper's startup
code is going to do.

I can't possibly help you, I feel quite certain that Nantucket development
couldn't help you, you just don't want it to work.  So fine, my software
isn't operating, all the other people that I know who pay $12.50 an hour
on Compuserve are just calling in and lying, there programs all hang the
computer but they spend money every day to sucker others into purchasing
the product.  Elvis is alive and a statue of him was found on the moon.

Thank you for what has been an interesting exercise.

tom