wtm@neoucom.UUCP (11/18/87)
Hi group,
I just called the STORE! last night after having registered several
days ago. I wanted to get CAPCTRL3.5 (naturally!). Part of the
package deal was the automatic downloading of the most recent
catalog. Note that I don't work for AT&T, so this is what the rest
of us plebean 3b1/7300/UnixPC/Safari owners can get: Below is the
order screen display, rendered into reasonable ascii format for
the net:
Order ONE at a time by keyword ...
Order ONE at a time by keyword ...
-ADVENTURE CPR ICON PACMAN THIRD
AMAZE CRYSTAL ICONOCLAST PHONESRC TREK
APPDEMO CSCOPE INEDIT PONG UNIXCAL
ARC DEMO.1 INSTALLDOC PRIME UNIXGAMES
ATC DEMO.2 LARN PROG_CALC VBACK
BACKGAMMON ELOCK LESS QUIZ VIKEYS
BIGBEN ENGINE LOGO REMINDERS VSH
CALCULATOR FATBIT MAGIC ROSE VSPELL
CAPCTRL3.0 FONTS MOUSE SCREENGAMES WINDY
CAPCTRL3.5 FORM_MAKER MSDOSW SE WORLD
CASINO GOB MTOOLS SEE XLISP
CATALOG GSS.SYMBOLS NGREP SHAH
COMM_DOCS HRDCPY OTHELLO SNAKE
Select ONE Keyword: <Enter> to order it; <Exit> when done
SCREEN DUMP VT-100 FDX 1200 E71 LOG CLOSED PRT OFF APP APP
What I really wanted is mailx, but it ain't there. I guess if I
would like to play Unix games with my 3b1, I'd be in pretty good
shape! At least, CAPCTRL3.5 is there. By the way, I also
downloaded the COMM_DOCS. That is a real waste of time; it is
written by a person at Convergent Technologies, and makes many
references to "Unix PC Mail Users Guide". I called the AT&T
documentation center and the hotline, and both totally deny the
existance of such a document. Sigh.
I apologize if this sounds like so-called "flaming". I *do*
appreciate AT&T taking the time to have the STORE! bbs. What I
would like is to see more stuff there that is useful.
With a machine like the Unix PC, we need more than games. (Heck we
can get that with a lowly PC clone :-). )ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat) (11/20/87)
True, we don't have access to much that we'd really like; I think the single, biggest screwup is not offering some flavor of HDB UUCP for $ale! I *know* that I'd pay a **reasonable** price for a binary-only license, and reasonable is in the range of a couple hundred $$ (if absolutely necessary; it seems to me that AT&T would *want* all these machines to talk to each other reliably, so we'd use lotsa phone time...) However, as far as mail utilities go, forget mailx. You *can* get Mail--the BSD code was done at a public institution with public $$, even though the Regents of the Board still own the copyright--but the ELM mail system far outstrips any of the other mailers I've seen available; and it doesn't cost us much to run (in system resources) on the 3B1, since we can do it in shared libraries... -- Dave Ihnat ihnp4!homebru!ignatz || ihnp4!chinet!ignatz (w) (312) 882-4673