hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) (06/20/88)
>I am wondering what is the latest PROCOMM PLUS that anyone has? >I still have 1.0, and have just now started to use it (instead >of 2.4.2). So I've had probs like lousy vt102 emulation, and >- Jay I communicated with Tom Smith of Datastorm recently on CompuServe and was told that all registered PROCOMM PLUS 1.0 owners would be receiving a free copy of 1.1c when it was ready. I also use 1.0 at present. John Hardin hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com
anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (06/21/88)
In article <4330090@hpindda.HP.COM>, hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) writes... ]>I am wondering what is the latest PROCOMM PLUS that anyone has? ]>I still have 1.0, and have just now started to use it (instead ]>of 2.4.2). So I've had probs like lousy vt102 emulation, and ]>- Jay ] ]I communicated with Tom Smith of Datastorm recently on CompuServe ]and was told that all registered PROCOMM PLUS 1.0 owners would be ]receiving a free copy of 1.1c when it was ready. I also use 1.0 ]at present. ] ]John Hardin ]hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com You know, I'm more than a little pissed about Datastorm's customer support! I registered really rather early for the shareware product (at the level of 2.3, actually). I returned the famous card to get ProComm+ the day it arrived. *Months* went by. In due course, the highly defective PCPLUS 1.0 arrived. I've been hearing about 1.1 for quite some time now, and growing more exasperated by the day. In today's mail arrived the 1.1A update disk. Upon installing it I find there are still errors in the VT102 emulation (right arrow rubs out the screen character), and not very many minutes later I discover there's a 1.1C to be delivered "when it is ready." Hell, I'll die "when I'm ready." I mean, what does that *mean*? I've had universally off-putting contacts with the registered users' BBS (when I'm willing to get up at 3:00 a.m. to get connected at all). I realize the company must be having extensive growing pains, as they're successful beyond their reckoning, more than likely. But although one's experience in the hurly-burly world of PC software support should have prepared us for this sort of thing, I really think one *should* protest, lest silence be taken for acquiescence. Have others had comparable fits from these folks? ==Jess Anderson======(home:)========INTERNET: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu==== | 1210 W. Dayton 2838 Stevens UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,allegra,ucbvax} | | Madison, WI 53706 Madison 53705 !uwvax!vms3.macc.wisc.edu!anderson | ==608/263-6988=======608/238-4833===BITNET: anderson@wiscmacc===============
hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin) (06/24/88)
>]I communicated with Tom Smith of Datastorm recently on CompuServe >]and was told that all registered PROCOMM PLUS 1.0 owners would be >]receiving a free copy of 1.1c when it was ready. I also use 1.0 >]at present. >] >]John Hardin >]hardin%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com > ... and not very many minutes >later I discover there's a 1.1C to be delivered "when it is ready." >Hell, I'll die "when I'm ready." I mean, what does that *mean*? >---------- Don't get too upset about the 1.1c version. I may be mistaken about that "c". My 1.1a also just arrived, so I assume this is the awaited update version, not 1.1c. Since I was operating from memory instead of hard-copy, I wouldn't count on the existence of a 1.1c version if I were you. Sorry for any confusion. John Hardin
deanr@lakesys.UUCP (Dean Roth) (06/25/88)
My copy of PCPLUS 1.1A arrived this week. Thus far I have not noticed any differences, though the documents list several. I've read several complaints about vt100 emulation in PCPLUS. Specifically that a backspace in vi or emacs erases characters on the screen (but not in the file) when a backspace should not erase characters from the screen. Well, if you change PCPLUS' backspace interpretation from destructive to non-destructive, this "problem" will not occur. I use PCPLUS' vt100 emulation *a lot* and have had no problems yet.