CompuServe Messages

Andy: I hope that 1.3 doesn't go through the interminable polishing that 1.2B4 sat through. For most of a year there, I sat through discussions of: whoever: "Well then, use the PATH command." me: "I don't *HAVE* PATH yet. It's not legal!" him: "You mean you're still sitting through 1.1 directory searches?" me: "Will *YOU* give me a copy of 1.2B4?" him: "Um, er, no…." I ended up having to go and cultivate pirate sources to obtain the software. I would rather not be feeding these people's egos, but I *NEEDED* that software and CBM showed no inclination of releasing it. (1.2B4 in march? Eventual release of 1.2 in late Dec?) A transformer that ran at 20% speed and could share the machine would satisfy ALL my MSDOS needs. I could live with it even if it couldn't share the machine. I don't need an AT bridgecard. Transformer was abandoned two years ago. I want a $100 IBM for the occasions I need it. Note that I don't claim that this was a problem in 1.2. (thus this paragraph is not contradicting the one above it.) Transformer, at least the patch that has circulated to ALLOW it to run on KS 1.2 should have been released by CBM. ../greg