Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley From: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Microport -- Man or Myth??!? Message-ID: <306@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 00:46:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.306 Posted: Tue Sep 29 00:46:07 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 05:53:48 EDT References: <10154@beta.UUCP> <139@turnkey.UUCP> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: windley@iris.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley) Organization: U.C. Davis - College of Engineering Lines: 11 In article <139@turnkey.UUCP> jack@turnkey.UUCP (jack) writes: > Can you imagine telling a client >that the "fix" to a bug in a command is not to use the command!! > I had Aston-Tate tell that to me on two seperate occasions about two different commands in dBASE III (not Plus). One time the guy said "Oh *that* command, we never use that command, its buggy as hell." Phil Windley Robotics Research Lab University of California, Davis