Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!killer!elg From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Utilities Unlimited Inc. Message-ID: <5568@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 19 Sep 88 00:17:15 GMT References: <814@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 23 in article <814@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, scottc@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Scott Craig) says: > Has anyone ever heard of "Utilites Unlimited Inc."? > Let me help you. They advertise a lot in RUN magazine. Not surprisingly, I wouldn't trust these people further than I could throw them. The Commodore community has a long history of companies such as Megasoft coming in and suckering in developers, then screwing them... and when heat starts coming down, they take the money and run. What we need, instead of such for-pay things, is a registry of public domain/freeware programs. Alas, the only way that would work would be something like the Fish Disk collection for the Amiga -- a popular Amiga magazine (Amazing Computing) regularly publishes information on how to get a complete catalog of the Fish Disks, how to order, etc. Another point is cost of acquisition.... which is why I do not count TPUG as being a valid collection point (when floppy diskettes were $1, they were charging $5 for one! As does Fish, but we're talking 3 1/2" diskettes with 880K, with useful programs...). -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.