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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Should I be getting my Transactor Mag. yet?
Message-ID: <303@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 18:10:00 GMT
References: <7481@pur-ee.UUCP> <634@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
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Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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In article <634@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>In article <7481@pur-ee.UUCP>, youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (Bret H Young) writes:
>> I subscribed by phone to the Transactor Magazine last Dec. to get the 
>> $7.50 deal....  If anybody has 
>> received a copy in the mail let me know ...
>Please post your replies.  I sent them a check for $7.50, too, and
>haven't gotten anything from them yet.  And they've cashed the check.
>-Peter Schachte
>pds@quintus.uucp
>...!sun!quintus!pds

	Well, since someone asked for a post...

	I too was in the same boat yesterday (when I read the first
message).  Transactor Magazine had cashed my check, but no mag had
arrived in my mailbox yet.  Because of the reports that people were
reading these already, I was getting itchy yesterday as I walked home,
wondering when I would get to read the magazine.

	Well, lo and behold, it had come that day and was sitting on
the table just waiting to be read.  I therefore assume that the other
magazines are in the mail.  My guess as to why they are so late is
the Canadian mail system.  Having lived in Montreal several years ago,
I have had some experience with slow mail (and mail strikes) in Canada
(well, at least in Quebec), so it really doesn't surprise me that it
took awhile for the magazine to reach my house.  Maybe there is a
different reason...the above is only a guess.

	Anyhow, I must say that I enjoyed the first issue.  There were
many interesting articles; I especialy enjoyed the one on CAOS by Andy
Finkel.  If only it had been implemented, there wouldn't be so much
grief switching between UNIX in the day and AmigaDOS at night [now,
how to I move up the directory tree again...is it "cd /" or "cd .." ? ;-].
And yes, I also believe that the best programming insights come after
2:00am and lotsa pizza (a good beer will do wonders too! ;-)

						-Chris
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Chris Lishka                    /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
"What, me, serious? Get real!"  \{seismo, harvard,topaz,...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka