Hello Don,
On (23 Jul 96) Don Nickell wrote to Phil Heberer...
 DN> Kind of a contrasting message--the sour note on Corel, but the
 DN> upbeat signoff. :=)
 DN> Yes, Phil, it sure sounds as if Corel isn't winning any new
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 DN> customers with this latest acquition's handling. It seems to me that
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Brother, is THAT an understatement!! If it weren't for the fact that so
many things are just *easier* to do with WP instead of Word, I'd have
jumped ship! IMO, WPWin 6.1 still beats MSWord 7, and I have them both
to compare side-by-side.
Now my problem is that WP Suite 7 won't uninstall!! It offers no
uninstall in the setup program, and relies on the Uninstall of Win95.
All I get with that is that there is an error, but NOT what the error
IS! :-( I only installed the Beta 3 to run from CD-ROM, since a full
install would gobble from 171 to 250+ megs of HD space!! Whatever
happened to "640K should be enough RAM for *anyone*"!!? With such
sloppy coding (as evidenced by the size of the monster programs), no
WONDER it's buggy!
 DN> things have gotten so big one group doesn't communicate with another
 DN> on the same product! I saw that happen during my career in
 DN> electronics. In 1957 I was working for Space Technology Labs (STL)
 DN> in Manhattan Beach, CA. With 3,000 people we put up several of the
 DN> first moon satellites, and did a magnificent job working with space
 DN> associated problems that couldn't be imagined at the time. TRW Space
 DN> System Division was organized for political reasons from STL and
 DN> soon grew to 21,000 employees. We did great things too, Pioneer,
 DN> Viking, soft lunar landing, etc. But many a time there were snafus
 DN> because of the size of the company!
I agree with what you say about the size of the company, but I also
don't think "modular" programming is all it's cracked up to be either.
 DN> Seems to me the same thing is happing to the good ole U.S. of A!!!
*You're* telling *ME*! *I* work for the U.S. Government in Civil
Service! 
Cheers,
Phil
... "I voted Democrat once, but I'm much better now."
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