Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!vortex!lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA From: lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: your Coherent problems Message-ID: <2086@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 21:02:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2086 Posted: Mon Jul 16 21:02:05 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jul-84 03:26:59 EDT Lines: 41 From: Lauren Weinstein Dave, I'm somewhat at a loss to understand the situation you describe, since it runs completely counter to my own experiences and to those of many people I talk to frequently about Coherent and Mark Williams Co. If there was a lag of 5 months I feel safe in assuming that something got lost -- most people I know have commented that they got the requested updates virtually immediately after requesting them. >From what you describe, it sounds like you had one of the very early XT versions that had a particular problem due to an undocumented change in the disk drives/controllers that IBM began installing in the PC's. However, this problem was fixed LONG ago -- there have been numerous intermediate releases of Coherent sent out to people on request on a continuous basis. I personally have been encouraging MWC to hold off the next *major* release of the system so that a pile of useful new utilities can be included, such as an EMACS-compatible editor (it uses termcap and the standard Coherent H19/Z19 screen emulation, complete with meta key) ... it's primarily a matter of testing the new version and getting the rather voluminous documentation in order. In any case, intermediate versions of the system have been going out to people who requested them all along, and yours is the first report I've had of "support problems." Since I talk to MWC frequently, I invite you to give me a call and explain your situation, and I'll be happy to make sure that it's cleared up. --Lauren-- P.S. You mentioned MCI mail -- which triggered off one of my pet angers -- I've had reports of about 30% of MCI mail messages never being delivered. I can't prove this directly since I don't use it, but I've had lots of people try to send *me* MCI mail and it almost never arrives! Talk to you later. --LW--