A/UX 3rd party product list

[Jim Jagielski]

In article <33093 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>brooks at Apple.COM (Kevin Brooks) in <44145 at apple.Apple.COM> writes:
>
>	I've just put a copy of the latest supported 3rd party products listing
>	on the A/UX info/update server.  Its broken down by application type
>	and its actually getting preety large.  Its stored in a binhex stuffit
>	format archive, once you unwrap it should be a nicely formatted MS Word
>	4.0 doc.
>
>With all due respect for the efforts of all the people doing this stuff, I'd
>like to see files which don't alienate those of us attempting to port products
>to an ostensibly ``UNIX'' platform.
>
>  ... misc belly-aching deleted...
>
>One answer to my query ("Is A/UX Viable?") several weeks ago suggested that
>Apple is serious about UNIX.  OK, I'm keeping an open mind; PROVE IT!
>

Hey Thad....

	1) Lighten up a little. Sorry we can't all be perfect like you and
	   make everyone happy at the same time  ;)

	2) You say you're keeping an "open mind." Then you PROVE IT!
	   Seems to me that you've already made up your mind. If you
	   don't like Apple or Mac or A/UX that's your right. I know
	   a lot of people who don't like IBM or Unix or VAX/VMS, etc...
	   but that doesn't mean that I necessarily want to hear them
	   constantly say how "crappy" the platform and in the same
	   breath how "diplomatic" they are being in their opinions...

	3) Are you implying that you DON'T want to see files that make
	   use of A/UX 2.0's capabilities and, therefore, are not 100%
	   portable. I think many people don't feel that way. If your
	   point is that using traditional Mac programs to create/
	   maintain these files may prohibit some people from accessing
	   them, then I agree... whether nroff files are the way to go,
	   well.... I don't know. It's a LOT easier to maintain the files
	   (and, let's admit it, make them "pretty" as for as formatting,
	   etc...) using the Mac OS word processors... maybe TeachText
	   would be a good compromise.
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