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From: drw@runge.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
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Subject: Re: Receiving files "automatically"
Date: 9 Nov 94 08:58:40
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In article <1994Nov8.105602.32280@cc.usu.edu> jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
> If I wanted to buy the manual for a telecomm program, I'd go to my
> local software store and buy Procomm.
But then you'd have to read it all by yourself with no way to
talk to the developers.
So far, the developers haven't been stunningly useful. I've made one
request, "The DIAL command is the single most important command in a
terminal emulator, so you should make it *easy* to find out how to use
it." and the developers have replied "We don't care."
And for most commercial software, you *can* talk to tech support. And
the developers do listen to what customers complain about.
DOS ain't Unix, in case you haven't discovered that yet. Unix
won't necessarily find files either unless the PATH is used or the
program is built to look in its startup directory.
You just compile the correct directory into the executable. It works
quite reliably.
Dale
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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