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- From: milton@teal.csn.org (Milton Scritsmier)
- Subject: Re: Looking for Rick Stiles
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- References: <1992Sep7.174910.11097@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <65417@cup.portal.com>
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:01:26 GMT
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- In article <65417@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- >>
- >>I am looking for the current address and telephone number of Rick Stiles
- >>the author of the UEDIT editor for the AMIGA. The last address/tel
- >>that I have is:
- >>Rick Stiles, PO Box 666, Washington, IN 47501, tel (812)-254-4986.
- >>This was good as of February 19, 1992.
- >>However the telephone number was no longer in service yesterday.
- >>Perhaps he has moved?
- >>-----------------------------------------------
- >> Reply-To: Rostyslaw Jarema Lewyckyj
- >> urjlew@uncmvs.acs.unc.edu (ARPA,SURA,NSF etc. internet)
- >> or urjlew@unc.bitnet
- >> or urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP
- >> tel. (919)-962-6501
- >
- >Unfortunately, Rick Stiles passed away in July 1992. I was not a
- >registered owner of his program so I don't know what his last
- >current address was. However I have heard that his parents were
- >completely aware of his Amiga efforts and that they will shortly
- >be releasing U-Edit to the public domain. I believe this info to be
- >correct. Someone let me know if I'm wrong. How the mechanics of
- >this new distribution will work is unknown to me however I believe
- >that registered owners of U-Edit were recently sent a letter from
- >his parents detailing the sad situation of his passing and their
- >plans for changing the status of his product to PD.
- >
- >Perhaps a registered owner of U-Edit could supply the missing details.
-
- According to the letter, it will be released via a Fish disk, and
- will include (I believe) the source.
-
- I for one was greatly saddened to hear about Rick's passing. I think
- that U-Edit didn't get nearly the recognition it deserved. Ironically,
- this was probably becaused of Rick's decision to keep costs down by
- handling distribution himself.
-
-
- will include (I believe) the source.
-
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