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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Bad programming practices: View from the other side...
Message-ID: <4992@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 15 Feb 90 18:39:02 GMT
References: <"90-02-14-17:50:45.32*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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In article <"90-02-14-17:50:45.32*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>, UK4H@DKAUNI2.BITNET ("JAE ", Juergen A. Erhard) writes:
> Hi folks,
> 
> especially you at CBM...
> Harald reminded me of an idea that I had yesterday:
> Ain't it possible to make autodocs and such stuff available on the net
> (FTP or some such...)???

I agree. I have already spent 1.5X the cost of my cpu on manuals

> 
> Or do you try to get as rich as Midas selling those RKM's (;-)). If so,
> you are at least partly to blame for misbehaved software...
> 
> To summarise: I totally and wholeheartedly agree with Haralds msg. It's
> just too difficult to get docs over here in Germany (or Europe).
> There are many *serious* programmers here in Germany (and Europe) who   as
> consider their local CBM represantatives a bunch of idiots. This is not o go
> a flame, just a fact I've experienced.                                  low.
> 
>> How sending competent personal to fairs instead of marketroids and
> That'd be FINE!!! Of course, every now and then, one stumbles
> (accidentialy) over a competent guy at a CBM booth, but that's *really*
> rare...
> 

We don't get marketing folk even. We get NOTHING. CBM do NOTHING. They ARE
nothing. With the one exception that a nice technical bloke helped me over the
phone with a hardware problem. The usual problem is I apply to CBA Australia
for developer status, right to alter narrator device, docs, ANYTHING; with
absolutely NO ANSWER. If I write to the US CBM, I just get refered back to the
Australian CBM. They are completely USELESS and DO NOTHING. Please sack them.
Please, I'd do anything! (Well almost anything). But leave the nice bloke in
the technical department.
Regards Alan
>                                           -jae
> 
> ========================================================================
> Juergen A. Erhard
> eMail: uk4h@dkauni2.bitnet
> phone: (+49) 721/591602
> "You know that it's monday when you wake up and it's tuesday."
>                                                     Garfield
> DISCLAIMER: none, I don't speak legalese.