Hi Mike,

You wrote to Phil Crown:

MB> PC> Thanks for posting that, I should be getting DevCon #9 late
MB> PC> next week... :-)

MB>I confirmed with IBM that DevCon 9 has been shipping for two weeks already.
MB>I have not yet received mine, and they can't figure out
MB>why.  Apparently, they are getting a lot of complaints
MB>about non-delivery.  In my case, for example, they found
MB>that there had been an order posted to ship two weeks ago,
MB>and that the order was still sitting in the computer system
MB>unprocessed.

MB>My DevCon subsciption has been a disaster.  I am one of the
MB>original OS/2 development subscribers, and my DevCon
MB>started with issue 1.  I renewed my subscription after
MB>issue 4 and received issue 5 before the decision was made
MB>to combine the Device Driver Kit with DevCon.  Then I
MB>upgraded from DevCon to DevCon with DDK as of issue 6,
MB>which was also supposed to extend my subscription through
MB>issue 9.

You're not the only one. Over here (we're serviced by ISMS in Denmark)
I got DevCon 1 through 5, had to argue with them to get the update disk
to 5 (send a FAX of the note in the CFORUM saying it would be sent to
all who got 5...). Because of payment difficulties I didn't renew till 7
(for the "with DDK" version), 7 arrived OK, I had to hassle them to get
8 (finally got it 3 weeks ago :-( ), 9 is still a dream... Hassling them
is a problem, it means 'phoning Denmark (at extortionate international
rates :-( ). At the present rate of progress I'll be spending an amount
on telephone bills approaching the cost of the subscription :-(.

You can tell how efficient IBM are, the despatch labels have contact
telephone numbers on them. All the UK numbers changed in April this year
(the old versions stopped working, the new ones had worked since
September last year) and they are still giving the old, now non working,
numbers on the labels :-(

George

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