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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
Subject: Re: Heatseeker
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 17:23:24 GMT

In article <91175.213841ART100@psuvm.psu.edu> ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes:
>My initial worry regarding this program is not viruses (mostly because I
>no hard drive, keep pristine archive copies of almost everything I use, and
>have a hard time believing that anyone would distribute a virus in such
>a blatant manner) but rather how safely it performs its functions.
>We've all heard of the bugs that copy II+ has seen, and it has to be
>the most-used prodos 8 file utility program, and indeed prodos disks
>once in a while just get screwed up for no apparent reason (there is always
> [ Stuff deleted ]

	That's a perfectly understandable fear, and I admire the bravery
of those who were willing to give it a shot.  There are now, to date, about
80 people around the globe testing out the software, and I've only heard of
two bugs - one was a minor one which I knew of but forgot to mention in the
bug list (incorrect hard drive free space reporting) and the other was one
which I found, which was that some files in subdirectories would show up as
"cannot be undeleted" even though they could be - and a fix for this was
provided within about 20 minutes of when I discovered the bug.

>By the way, it's rather irrelevant, but I was disappointed at the way
>the original post came across, i.e. blatant advertising. Probably
>a more humble approach would have caused less worry. Well, I guess
>bad press is still press...

True.  I agree with you, the post was about as cheesy as they get.  But as
I mentioned, I tried a very professional, straightforward offer on FidoNet
several months ago and didn't receive a single response.  I had to try
something new.

I hope that you'll be interested in trying future versions..  and anyone
else that still wants a copy, they're free for the taking.. just leave me
email so I can get you on my emailing list..

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