Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS BUGS
Summary: all fixed up
Keywords: MKS, bugs
Message-ID: <591@mks.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 20:13:55 GMT
References: <1361@anuck.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 49

There have been a couple of messages recently pointing out some problems
in our software.  We have looked into each point, and resolved each as
necessary. 

> From jjones@anuck.UUCP (jeff jones) Wed Nov 23 11:41:22 1988
> Message-ID: <1361@anuck.UUCP>
> 
> I at least expected a response from Mr.  MKS, either confirming or
> denying the problem.  I know that Gerry Wheeler (Mr.  MKS?) reads this
> net because he always seems to volunteer his excellent responses to MKS
> problems. 

Mr. MKS? Not quite. :-)

Jeff pointed out several items, which I've deleted for space reasons. 
Several had already been fixed since the version he has was issued, and
the others have now been fixed and will appear in the next release. If
you want to get an update, Jeff, give us a call or drop me a line.

> From jls@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Jerome Schneider) Sun Nov 27 05:38:49 1988
> Subject: Re: MKS BUGS
> Message-ID: <6244@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
> 
> Although I e-mailed this to Gerry Wheeler at MKS, I though I would post
> it here (in keeping with the spirit of showing both the good and the bad
> sides of the toolkit :->).  Here are three more bugs (features?). 

Jerome's points have also been fixed up, except for the size of inittab. 
It does have a limit of 1K + 100 bytes, because of the need to keep init
as small as possible.  In many cases, programs which do not remain
resident can be loaded from /etc/rc.ksh instead, which has no size
limit. 

We appreciate these items being pointed out, no matter where, as we do
like to keep the Toolkit up to date.  However, I think email would have
been a better choice for some of this.  For one thing, we won't miss
reading an email message.  And there seems little point in broadcasting
to many thousands of people news of bugs that have already been fixed. 
Our usenet email address is ...!uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit (which is
directed to me).  We also have addresses on CompuServe and BIX. 

And my thanks to those who have already replied to these messages.  We
wanted to be sure we had everything in hand before posting our own
reply, so the intermediate replies from others helped fill the gap. 
-- 
     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
Mortice Kern Systems Inc.               UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels
   35 King St. North                             BIX: join mks
Waterloo, Ontario  N2J 2W9                  CompuServe: 73260,1043