Re: CA/400 Woes

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:46 PM 11/22/97 -0500, Don wrote:
>Haven't been using it for long have you...  

Well, about 6 months now... but it was installed at my machine at work and
I don't have to mess around with it ('cept, of course, customizing the hell
out of it).

> Try having to install CA/95
>without any "support line contracts" ...when it urps up all over the place
>due to PROBLEMS IN THE %$@#@'ing BASE CODE, you can't call in for the fix
>to the DEFECTIVE software until you BUY BUY BUY BUY the damn support
>contract...which then they will tell you that they ooppss and you need to
>download a tonne of ptf's..and create a file in the windows directory that
>they forgot to create cuz they thought when you download from a PC to the
>400, you would REALLY WANT the data to still be ASCII...and not translate
>to EBCDIC...   You EVER try reading ASCII data into a pgm on a 400???

Don't mince words, Don, tell us what you REALLY think.

david

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