jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (07/03/86)
In recent weeks, I've been detailing the progress of a problem with the Manx Aztec verion 1.06H release, in which the shell was unable to launch any application not in the top-level directory of an HFS volume on the Hard Disk 20, making the compiler unusable on an HFS volume on the Hard Disk 20. Well, I'm glad to say that *finally*, after nearly a month, the problem has been fixed! Jim Goodnow at Manx's California office posted a patch (to the Shell, not the Hard Disk 20 driver) to Manx's California bulletin board at (415) 339-2427. The California one had been down for a long time, and I had been calling the one in Tinton Falls, where I had gotten no response at all from the customer support folks, but the one in CA came up 2 days ago, and I left a message on there, and almost immediately Mr. Goodnow posted the correction, along with a personal email letter to me about it (unlike the Tinton Falls folks, who ignored all email). I installed it last night and recompiled my *big* C application with no problems, so at last the problem is fixed; so, being a forgiving sort of person I wish to retract my complaints about Manx. They were certainly slow about fixing it, but now it's fixed and works fine. Incidentally, I highly recommend this new release... not only does it have HFS support, but the Developer version now includes the "make" utility (formerly only on the Commercial version), which works almost exactly like the familiar Unix "make" utility (the only things not supported being some of the more esoteric keywords, etc.). The format of the dependency files, etc. are exactly like the conventional "make" utility, such that I didn't even have to read the manual to use it. (Now if only I could convince them to quit using the System Font for messages from the compiler :-))... -------- *Unix is a trademark of AT&T. Manx and Aztec are trademarks of Manx Software Systems. Disclaimer: I have been buying Manx compilers since back when they had small black & white ads in a corner of a page in Byte, and also met the Manx folks about 8 months ago, so am not necessarily entirely unbiased, but have no connection with the company other than the above. -- E. Roskos (See net.net-people.)