Agreed.  I knew I could count on Olin as a sort of 'miner's canary' to
sound an early warning :)

But Olin, please try to change that to:
'_BETA_ = bugs so TechTools RELEASE != BUGs'
before committing it to permanent memory.

OK Ron, looks like its back to the TechTools list or to me directly.

Thanks for the indulgence folks.


At 11:26 AM 7/23/01, you wrote:
> > Hello Jerry, it's much better to continue here, because the tech tools
>list
> > server puts the mailed from address as the name of the person who sent it,
> > not the list, so i can't in-box filter the messages into a tech tools list
> > folder like i can with the piclist.  As for the grid, I never did try to
> > resize it, call me lazy, I guess my patience wore out when i saw it.  As
>for
> > the bad download, that's not it, because i downloaded the beta 2 on a
> > competely virgin machine and installed it fine onto windows 2000
> > professional, and i brought in only the SRC file, not the project, and
>made
> > a new project file, and still got the same problem.  Then I installed v4.1
> > on the same machine and had no problems.
> >
> > Could be anything... any ideas?
>
>No offense guys, but I don't want to see the PIC list turned into a
>TechTools support list.  I don't know what the admins think of this, but it
>is starting to annoy me.  Don't get me wrong, I think some amount of
>discussing bugs/features of products PIClisters might use is a good thing,
>but this thread has descended into irrelevant details for most of us long
>ago.  It's also not fair to vendors to air their dirty laundry so publicly.
>Yes, I know, all products have bugs and individual cases don't mean
>anything.  However, I haven't been reading the details but am, perhaps
>unfairly, left with "TechTools = bugs" in the back of my mind as a result of
>many messages on this subject.
>
>
>********************************************************************
>Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
>(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com
>
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