Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!homxb!homxc!ldm
From: ldm@homxc.UUCP (the wharf rat)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Boo on VLS, Ic. !!
Message-ID: <2540@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 00:58:17 GMT
Organization: Viola Lee's Blues
Lines: 18
Keywords: "memory fault - core dumped", dx2700


	Before I came to this site, some hot-shot salesman from Xerox
talked the then-administrator into buying Xerox 3700 printers to (get
this, folks...) be driven by a network of 6 **3B2s**.  OK, that idiocy
aside, the software they picked to drive them is the product of VLS inc.
in California, and guess what ?  It's *broke*.  Like, "core dump" broke.
Actually, it works fine for text, but feed it pic and POW! memory faults.

	When you call VLS, what happens ??  "Well, _we_ can't duplicate
that error."  Or "Yes, it's a known bug, we'll have a new release out 
tommorrow", and needless to say, tommorrow never comes.  And I'm not the
only one running this garbage here, either.  It dumps core just as well 
on VAXen as it does on anything else.

	Moral ?  Don't buy Xerox for UNIX systems, and never buy VLS products,
unless you *like* core dumps.  Expensive, unsupported core dumps.

                                                       lou marco