Re: Spectrum: History!!!!!

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

>As far I'm concerned, Spectrum is history for me!!
> 
>First I load Spectrum...won't work, no Hierarchic init file! Fine...got
>it from a friend and installed it. Then I called up my local
>provider.....Spectrum would hang up as soon as I logged on. So I added the
>D0...fine, I'm on! Then I get a screen full of pluses ++++++++ instead
>of lower case letters. I amend the VT-100 module.....fine, I can see and
>read. Now......check out my NEW problem and it's a doozie!!!
 
Try installing it correctly the first time like it says in the manual, or 
using the installer.
 
>I tried uploading a text file and Spectrum crashed so badly in the
>middle of the transfer it rewrote my startup disk (hard drive) and now my
>6.0.1 system files are so badly corrupted, I can't get my GS to say
>'boo.'  Needless to say, I'm DEFINITELY NEVER going to recommend Spectrum 
>to anybody in the Apple world.
 
Sorry, but this wasn't Spectrum's fault.  If your GS pulled this little 
stunt, then it must have been set up horribly.  Think about it.  I might 
understand if you were downloading, but uploading?  You're not even 
writing to the drive!!  Sorry, but Spectrum is free of blame here.
 
Also, I hope to god you have the real version, and not the Dr. Tom 
hacked  bullshit copy.  I got a hold of that once, thinking it was a beta 
update version of v1.0.  WRONG!!!  (It DID kill my Telecom partition)
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