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- From: hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Borland NZ complaints (longish)
- Message-ID: <1607@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 17:22:22 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.064208.25085@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <1992Sep15.064208.25085@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
- >Posted for a Usenet-challenged friend....
- > -----------------------
- >Am I a whinger or what?
- >
- >When Borland (NZ) released the BC3.1 upgrade I trotted along tuit-suite as fast
- >as my little legs would carry me only to find out that they'd sold all the 3.5"
- >copies and I'd have to make do with a 5.25" one. No problem... my machine's
-
- [stuff about needing to install on machine w/ only 3.5" drive deleted]
-
- >Looks as if Borland's install program is too smart for its own good.. it
- >"knows" that if you're installing off 3.5" HD media then you only need 16 disks
- >so the other 2 in my set were completely ignored.
-
- [stuff about Borland being less-than-helpful <grin> deleted]
-
- We, I'm not too surprised at the sluggishness from Borland (seems they
- are willing to help if money is involved, e.g., "Sure I can solve your
- problem! There's this new version out that fixes that problem and for only
- $139 you can upgrade to it. Butwait, there's more! For another $99 you can
- also get this handsome simulated wood grain finish carrying case for the
- manuals. :-) However, personality conflicts with Borland's technical/
- customer support people aside, an easier solution might have been to make a
- backup of the directory (and sub-directories) with BC++ in them and restore it
- to the other computer.
-
-
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