From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: fall of rsxntdj??
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Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote in message
news:7pe6ns$kil$1 AT antares DOT lu DOT erisoft DOT se...
> Have you been in contact with him? Perhaps he doesn't have time
> reading this newsgroup? Then he needs to alerted to these problems.

Yes, I've been in contact with him. He was extremely rude and un-interested
in what I told him (I explained some of the problems).

> Perhaps he doesn't have time updating RSXNTDJ? Then he needs some help
> with that.

Then why doesn't he ask for it?

> As you seem to know RSXNTDJ, perhaps you could write up a document
> explaining the problems and their solutions with regard to
> RSXNTDJ. Then submitting it to Eli for inclusion in the FAQ. This is
> surely much more productive than writing posts complaining about
> RSXNTDJ.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not worth it. The problems with RSXNTDJ
basically render it completely useless to a first time user that doesn't
know much about DJGPP in general.

> In short, _do_ something instead of complaining.

Excuse me? For the last 4-5 months I've been answering questions oabout
RSXNTDJ. When they started I was under the impression that maybe Rainer
would do something about the problems (they are minimal fixes), but he
hasn't.

I'm not trying to be rude to you, and I'm sure you weren't trying to offend
me, but it's understandable that I'm a bit touchy about RSXNTDJs "problems".

I'm just thinking, maybe I should release a new version. Make some decent
help files for it, fix the libraries problem, maybe include RSXNTDJ as a
switch to GCC again. Would I be looking for trouble if I just went ahead and
did it without consulting Rainer? I think maybe I should ask him first, if
he really is THAT busy then he wouldn't mind, now would he?

Now, would there be any call for this? Or has everyone abandoned RSXNTDJ
forever? I'm willing to fix this thing (if only to save my bandwidth :-))

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Johan Venter
ICQ 3643877
surf.to/djgppig

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