erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (12/14/88)
I just got my Lattice V5.00, and am having no real problems with it. It works fine for me (20 Mb Hard drive system). My complaint with it is that there is no indication in the manual about the amount of DISK SPACE the software blithely sucks up. I have a partitioned 20 Mb disk. My system partition is 100 cyls (ST225), for a size of 3.4 Mb, with a utility partition of the same size, and an 11 Mb partition for user files. Under Lattice V4.01, I had WB1.2, WB1.3 *and* Lattice on the first partition. Under Lattice V5.00, I can barely fit just Lattice in 3.4 Mb. I love the goodies I got, but I would have liked to have know that I needed over 2 Mb free to install the software on my hard disk. Please ... to all software producers and potential software producers ... just telling the consumer that he should have a 20 Mb disk is not enough. If the disk is partitioned, or just plain full, there may not be enough space free to load the software onto. I had to install the Lattice 3 times to get it right; this release asks for ALL 5 DISKS during the install procedure, the last release only asked for *2*; I had no warning of this. I don't mean to sound unappreciative for all the nice new goodies I got (like lmk and the like), but I did not see much change between the introduction of this manual and the introduction of the V4.01 manual: it only said that owning a hard disk in a good thing, not how much of a good thing to have. -ethan P.S. My manual _did_ have one flaw ... ink splotches on about 5 or 6 pages in the library section.-- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 2887 Silver Drive | ## Columbus OH 43211 | ###### "You get it, you're closer.