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From: nelson@kodak.UUCP (bruce nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Publishing Partner/ Page Stream Updates
Message-ID: <1616@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 21:54:35 GMT
References: <1612@ssc.UUCP> <2228@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <3127@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: nelson@kodak.UUCP (bruce nelson)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, NY
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In article <3127@dalcs.UUCP> bill@biomel.UUCP, biomel@cs.dal.CDN writes:
>Not all of us are on the commercial networks, and SoftLogik's pattern of
>distributing software over them is pretty hard on foreign users.  I've
>been getting mailings of what appear to be demos, which seem a real
>waste of their money, but then I hear that people are getting useful
>programs from Genie and CompuServe.  Does anyone have a good idea when 
>SoftLogik will put a WORKING version in the MAIL for those of us who
>have ordered and paid for the update?
>

Ok, here's how it's gonna work (according to S-L on the phone last week) ....

IF SoftLogik decides to, they are going to post, on C-Serve and GEnie, an
encoded version of the newest release. You will need the 1.00 release of
PageStream mailed in November to decode it. This is so that some of the
users who a. Need it in a BIG hurry, and b. can't wait, and c. are users
of those services, can get a copy ASAP. But, if you don't or can't access
the uploaded version, the master disks will be released to the duplicating
company at the same time, and, as soon as they come back, they will be mailed,
to ALL registered users, whether they downloaded them or not.

The version mailed in June/July WAS a demo. Pure and simple. The version
mailed in November was a working version, although many bugs remained, and
some users claimed it, too, was a demo. The version about to be released
(I believe it will be version 1.05 and is supposed to be released on 8 Jan)
fixes those bugs, bugs you didn't even know about, and adds some features
which weren't complete in 1.00. 

The disks which will be mailed soon should include all the extra fonts and
printer drivers which have been uploaded to the pay services. The fonts, by
the way, included the PostScript downloadables, too. (It's really nice to have
another 15 or 20 fonts around :-).

Bruce Nelson
President, Atari Computer Users of Rochester, NY