(Excerpts from a message dated 11-18-99, John Angelico to Jack Stein)
JA>On 15/11/1999, Jack Stein said to Linda Proulx about Installation
>problem:
JS>
JS> That was a bug in WARP 3 that was there for one day, on the
JS> day of it's intial release. You could not buy, or it was
JS> difficult to find a copy of that, as they pulled it and
JS> fixed that on the first day.
JS>Don't believe everything you read in Unleashed.
JS>
JA>Oh, no! Jack - you have just introduced a bug into Linda's mental
>source code - and she's going to have to look at EVERYTHING in
>Unleashed with a jaundiced eye...
Actually, she should look at any documentation with a jaundiced eye,
and check it out by experiment if it doesn't smell right. But she will
need much more experience under OS/2 than she has now, before she will
feel comfortable doing so. However, the "OS/2 Unleashed" books are
rather unusual for third-party texts. It appears that the authors
actually tried most of the things they say rather than merely copying
them out of the vendor's documentation. However, they probably used the
very earliest copies of OS/2 Warp to work from, which may be why Jack
found this error. So, she is probably safe accepting their word unless
Jack tells her not to :-).
Of course, I disagree with many of the "recommendations" made in
"Unleashed," but I have been playing this game long enough to have
prejudices of my own :-).
Regards,
--Murray
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