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From: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UULINK
Message-ID: <1618@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 21:27:02 GMT
References: <14.UUL1.1#125@laird.UUCP>
Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz)
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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In article <14.UUL1.1#125@laird.UUCP> jsm@laird.UUCP (Jeffrey McArthur) writes:
>
>I have been using UULINK from almost the very first.  It works.  However,
>there are some REAL PROBLEMS WITH IT!!!!!
>
>First off, I have NEVER received ANY documentation.  Lauren kept saying,
>"some other people are writing it and they are just slow".  I finally
>gave up asking for documentation after a year of asking.

Yes, I must admit..It was quite a shock to receive my package and no
documentation.  However, I just checked with Lauren a few days ago and he
told me the documentation is finally finished and should be shipping
sometime during the second week of March (this month).

>So until the documentation gets done you are stuck with making long
>distance calls to Lauren and asking him how to configure your system.

That's true.  Let's hope this all changes with the new documentation.

>Also Lauren forgot to mention the price:  $335.  Quite high for a package
>with ONE floppy and no documentation.

Yes, I must admit that the price seems quite high.  On the other hand, at
the time I bought it, it saved me the countless hours it would have taken
for me to write something similar from scratch.  The other alternative was
to buy a UNIX package with uucp.  Since at the time that would have also
meant replacing my underpowered IBM PC, that would have been even more
expensive.

BTW....Disclaimer....I have no relation to Vortex (Lauren's firm) except as
a customer.  I have gripes about UULINK too.  But it does work for me.

-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Faculty Development Program
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