dml@rabbit1.UUCP (David Langdon) (04/14/88)
Sometime either earlier this year or late last year I seem to remember reading a posting saying that versions of MicroSpell and MicroScribe would be posted in the near future to the net. Does anyone know anything about this? Have I missed them? Any information (including "They will be coming in x months") would be appreciated. Thanx .. Dave Langdon -- David Langdon Rabbit Software Corp. (215) 647-0440 7 Great Valley Parkway East Malvern PA 19355 ...!ihnp4!{cbmvax,cuuxb}!hutch!dml ...!psuvax1!burdvax!hutch!dml
ksj7i@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Kenneth S. Johnson) (04/15/88)
I've been waiting for the release of MicroScribe for some months now. When I first received MicroEMACS, its author, Daniel Lawrence, said that Micro SCRIBE was under development and would be completed sometime in September. In September, that date was moved to December. In December, it became January, and in January it became March...are you getting the idea? As badly as I need this product, it's beginning to look as though it will never be released...it's following a pattern that we've seen all too often. For those who would like to contact Mr. Lawrence, perhaps to urge him to complete the project (!), he can be reached at The Programmer's Room FIDO. The number is (317) 742-5533. K. Scott Johnson (ksj7i@virginia.edu) Ma Bell: (804) 973-2452 / (804) 978-4939 / (804) 977-1867 SnailMail: P.O. Box 2422 / Charlottesville, VA 22902
nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) (04/15/88)
In article <451@rabbit1.UUCP> dml@rabbit1.UUCP (David Langdon) writes: >Sometime either earlier this year or late last year I seem to remember >reading a posting saying that versions of MicroSpell and MicroScribe >would be posted in the near future to the net. Does anyone know anything >about this? Have I missed them? Any information (including "They will be >coming in x months") would be appreciated. > >Thanx .. Dave Langdon MicroSPELL is already available (version 1.0). MicroSCRIBE is not yet ready for release. MicroSPELL version 1.1, the BETA release of MicroSCRIBE and MicroEMACS version 3.10 will all be released together, probably near the end of the summer. Daniel Lawrence (317) 742-5153 UUCP: {ihnp4!pur-ee!}j.cc.purdue.edu!nwd ARPA: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu FIDO: 1:201/2 The Programmer's Room (317) 742-5533
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (04/18/88)
In article <772@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> you write: >I've been waiting for the release of MicroScribe for some months now. When >I first received MicroEMACS, its author, Daniel Lawrence, said that Micro >SCRIBE was under development and would be completed sometime in >September. In September, that date was moved to December. In December, >it became January, and in January it became March...are you getting the >idea? As badly as I need this product, it's beginning to look as though >it will never be released...it's following a pattern that we've seen all >too often. What gall!! After someone creates two really useful software packages, complete with documentation, you register your international complaint (in a binary group, no less). It may come as a surprise, but people do have other things to do, and if you have one major piece of software out you may want to eradicate the last blemishes before making another available. To top it all off, you publish his Email address (not that it's a secret) to encourage all the other clods in the world to waste his time reading complaints from unproductive jerks instead of getting things done. It's lack of gratitude like yours which makes people burn out. They get tired of not only not getting proper thanks for their work, but getting pissed on by jerks who want it now, are too cheap to pay for a commercial version, and too dumb/lazy to do it themselves. "You stone, you clod, you worse than senseless thing!" - shakespeare -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me