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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Goddam the Goddam IBM C Set/2 Install!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <7221@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 1992 02:02:34 GMT
- References: <l9gnzvm.feustel@netcom.com> <19920830.182331.454@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In article <l9gnzvm.feustel@netcom.com>,
- feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
- >This is a horror story. Type n now if you don't like horror stories
-
- [horror story deleted]
-
- In article <19920830.182331.454@almaden.ibm.com> ameline@vnet.ibm.com (Ian
- Ameline) replies:
- > Something very weird is going on -- It's not supposed to do that.
- >If you send me your phone number in a note, I'll have the guy who wrote
- >the install program give you a call and try to straighten things out.
-
- ...to which I reply:
-
- Yet another example of IBM's support. This is *not* uncommon for the mainframe
- guys; I'm tickled to see that the same culture is shining through in the OS/2
- groups.
-
- Now the advocacy part: I expect to get this from IBM. I don't expect to get it
- from Microsoft. Guess who I buy my PC OSes from?
-
- [Followups directed to .advocacy, where they belong.]
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
- at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
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