Mike Ghormley wrote:

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> Their reply left *A LOT* to be desired.  In a nutshell, they had my money
> and they weren't getting enough people howling to make them change a
> thing.  I had told this story about a year ago on this list and received
> a reply from a person who had purchased their BASIC and he said that the
> documentation for it was poorly written but passable.

In my limited contact with them, I asked about the serin problem (waits
indefinitly for data, fixed on the stamp2)
I got the impression that I was
talking to their PR dept, very adept at wriggling and inept at actuallly
solving problems

Anyone with basic programming skills FAMILIAR with the program would
have
spent less time helping solve the problem than denying that there was a
problem

I (with very limited programing skills) solved the problem in a couple
of hours,
removing a call to a, hard to find(hence two hours), housekeeping
routine that clears the WDT

Having said all that the Pic Basic Compiler that I have from them
though limited does work well and I've had no problems

peter@cousens.her.forthnet.gr