From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fall of rsxntdj??
Date: 20 Aug 1999 09:57:38 GMT
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Johan Venter (jventer AT writeme DOT com) wrote:
: 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?

Yes, indeed.

: > 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".

Affirmative. As you _have_ been asking him about fixes etc. you _have_
done something. That's the right spirit! 

As for you answering questions about RSXNTDJ, I haven't followed
RSXNTDJ threads much as I don't use it. My fauly, sorry. Again you
_have_ been doing something.

: 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?

Yes, ask him. He shouldn't mind (if he is THAT busy). If he do mind,
it's time to look at copyrights and hope it's GPL...


Right,

							MartinS