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- From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
- Subject: Re: Want vista, but not sure.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.034608.22280@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Jul26.191457.26986@wam.umd.edu> <62855@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:46:08 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <62855@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- >A few months back a similar situation occured with a certain paint
- >program. It was produced as a "coverdisk" version for a UK magazine.
- >The magazine provided very little documentation in that issue, but
- >enouraged readers to send in some amount of money to receive a full
- >printed manual, which the maker of the paint program had done up
- >especially to be sold this way thru the magazine to its UK/Euro
- >customers. His contract with the magazine specifically prohibited
- >distribution of this issue with this disk in the USA where his
- >paint program is sold commercially, by dealers, in a full package with
- >the manual included.
- >
- >Well guess what hapened... the magazine was imported and ended up on
- >USA dealers' shelves anyway. Upon hearing this my friend, the
- >author and self-publisher of the paint program, well he basically
- >hit the ceiling. He's probably still trying to scrape himself off.
- >
- >At any rate, my hunch is that that version of Vista you're trying
- >to get from that coverdisk issue is PAL only, and that VRLI will tell
- >you it wasn't meant for USA distribution.
-
- Isn't that stupid, though, since here in Canada, most Amiga dealers import
- Euromags? Well, since we're still loyal to the Queen and all, I guess
- we have closer ties to Europe, "EH?" :) (Just had to add in a
- "Canadian-ism.")
-
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- / /\ /_/\__ Francis Lui
- /_/ /\\ \ \/\ e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
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