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From: singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Changing  to / in TOS
Summary: tos bugs / updates
Message-ID: <909@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 88 16:54:15 GMT
References: <4805@ihlpg.ATT.COM> <981@atari.UUCP>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Lines: 51

In article <981@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> in article <4805@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter) says:
> >> [...] why not release the bug fixes now?
> >> /Leonard
> 
> > [...] Every month or so
> > you get to buy a new version of the ROMs.
> > --j.a.tainter
> 
> That is exactly what will NOT happen.  If I had just "released the bug
> fixes" when I thought they were pretty much done, you would all be
> complaining that there were still bugs (and some new ones).  That's what
> internal test and pre-release beta test are for.  If you want to see
> what happens when you "just release" things, look at comp.sources.bugs
> some day.
> 
> Atari is a multinational corporation, and has to support what it
> releases.  Maybe you're not satisfied with the level of support, but I
> think it's ludicrous for you to ask that it be LOWERED. 
> 
> ============================================
> Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
> reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt


What is ludicrous is that in 3 YEARS these things have not been fixed.
Why should it take 3 years to fix what you have said was originally
written in one month?

Leaving alone the 40 folder bug. Why have these things not been fixed
in 3 YEARS.

Why can you write to a file that is opened for read only?
Why is the fat search so slow? It is obscene that it takes so long
   to open a file or check disk space.
Why does tos sometimes say a file is not there when it is, if the
   file has been added to a disk after some subdirectories have been
   added?


The new tos roms have character ouput sped up and the RS232 handler
rewritten. These were the LEAST obnoxious of the bugs in tos!


Perhaps when Atari supports their machines professionally, professionals
will buy their machines.  Until then, my company is dropping its support
for the ST.


Matt Singer
Commnet Systems