papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) (12/18/86)
> > The Software Distillery is a group of programmers whose creations can > be found on their BBS system at 919-471-6436. They bill themselves as > "purveyors of the finest in Amiga freeware," a well-deserved label; > these are the people who brought you Amiga Hack, Amiga Kermit, BLINK, > and PopCLI. Thus, the performance of the Make utility from the SD is > all the more disappointing. I just got Lattice 3.10 which is now packaged with Blink. Unfortunatly, due to the bugs in the handling of overlays in Blink, is basically of no use to me. The manual says that the OVERLAY directive IS supported and the readme file mentions no problems with it. But using the directive: ... OVERLAY file1.o file2.o # ... will return error 600: invalid command "file1.o" I stayed an hour on the phone with Lattice Tech support, that at the end acknowledged that blink's OVERLAY directive was indeed broken, and that I should contact The Distillery since blink is not their product. The problem is that now ALL their libraries are compatible ONLY with Blink and NOT with Alink. The manual says to "contact Lattice if one wants the Alink compatible libraries". After another couple of calls they found out what that meant (really we say that in the manual?) and are supposed to send me the Alink compatible libraries. Can anybody with the software distillery comment on the status of Blink support for overlays? At this point I am not really sure that the 3.10 update was worth the $75 I shelled out. Note, I am not mad at the software distillery, but at Lattice which is packaging a product with misleading information in it. -- Marco Papa Felsina Software