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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Can't backup to floppy
Summary: take a hike pal
Keywords: /dev/tty, console, cpio, Merge386
Message-ID: <547@micropen>
Date: 16 Sep 88 21:15:52 GMT
References: <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>
Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
Lines: 37

In article <913@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>, will@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Will Nelson) writes:
> The shit hit the fan today.
> MICOM-Interlan NP626,
> Locus Merge
> 
> That's right, you got it: I can't back the &ENCD%$@K!! system
> up to floppy with a network/Locus Merge kernel from the console.
> cpio didn't seem to work any better (in fact, worse) from the
> networked terminal, and we have no serial ports.
> 
> I called Microport: We can't help you, because you don't have
> a service contract! This is fucking bullshit!!!!!
> 
> Well, John Plocher, do you want to stick the system up your ass?
> Will Nelson		uucp: {decvax!decwrl}!pyramid!oliveb!cygnet!will

Sir:
You have absolutely no right to pollute this forum with *your* 
"fucking bullshit."  You bought a multi-vendor system without 
any support from any of your vendors or a qualified support organization
like a system integrator.  You obviously don't possess the capability
of debugging the problem in a rational manner.  And you make threats
of physical violence in a public place.  Over a telephone what you
have written here is assault.  Mr. Plocher could well have you arrested.
If you didn't know what a multivendor "everything for $199" multiuser
computer entails when you bought it means you are either very naive or 
very stupid.

In either case:  get it off this forum!  It doesn't belong here at all.



-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll