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From: amir@booboo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Who sells PC/VI?:  Now MKS Toolkit
Message-ID: <368@booboo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 14:06:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 14:06:50 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jun-87 01:43:29 EDT
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Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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In article <6067@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

> |How could you omit them in the first version and still call it ksh?
> |
> || Date for release 2.2 is not set yet - we hope to go to beta release at the
> || end of this month, with real release by June.  But no promises!
> || 
> |And let me guess.  You are going to charge for this release, right?
> Did you expect that buying one copy would give you a lifetime supply?
> With rare exceptions all companies have to charge for updates.
> 

Sure.  But the version (2.0) of the toolkit did not have a working version
of ksh (as admitted by the poster from MKS).  I bought the package for
vi and ksh.  I got a vi that mostly worked and ksh and was not operational
at all.  I expect to get a product that works when I pay for it. 

If you buy a radio and it doesn't work after 10 minutes don't you expect a 
new (or repaired) one?  I am not looking for more functional
version -- just one that works!  Apparently version 2.1 does have a ksh
that doesn't have major bugs but the company has not even notified me of
its existance (I am registered user).  Do they expect me to call them
(in Canada) every day to check???
-- 
Amir H. Majidimehr
Gould Inc, Computer Systems Division
{sun,pur-ee,brl-bmd}!gould!amir