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- >>>>> "Saul" == Saul Jaffe <jaffe@playfair.rutgers.edu> writes:
- In article <4hi4oe$jsp@playfair.rutgers.edu> jaffe@playfair.rutgers.edu (Saul Jaffe) writes:
-
-
- Saul> rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) writes:
-
- >> I've been limited to shareware apps and games, mostly, but I've
- >> found that several larger graphics apps (GraphicConvertor, NIH
- >> Image, ShareDraw, and a few others) seem to work under Executor
- >> quite well.
-
- Saul> Actually, it seems to be limited to just those applications
- Saul> that come with it, at least as far as I can tell.
-
- Note to readers: I believe you will find that Executor is not limited
- to the applications that came with it. Download a copy and test it
- for yourself. Saul has an axe to grind; see below.
-
- Saul> I've had
- Saul> absolutely no success with Executor since June of last year
- Saul> when I bought it. I've been unable to get it to read any
- Saul> floppy from any software package so that the software can be
- Saul> installed. I've also gotten *no* help or support from the
- Saul> company (ARDI) and all they've done is offer me my money
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Saul> back.
-
- This is not true.
-
- ARDI tried repeatedly to discuss Saul's problem with Saul, but Saul
- was uncooperative and sent missives that were largely invective and
- insults rather than honest attempts to try to solve the problem.
-
- As such, I offered Saul a refund, even past the 30-day money back
- guarantee date and instructed all ARDI employees to ignore all e-mail
- from Saul. That is not a tack I took lightly, in fact, Saul is unique
- in provoking such a response.
-
- >> What kinds of (or specific) apps are you thinking of running?
- >>> does it also allow you to read mac floppies?
- >> Yes (1.44MB only, not 800k), and also Mac CD-ROMs.
-
- Saul> Not as far as I can tell. Not 1.44MB, not 800k, not any
- Saul> floppy I've tried (and I've tried about 50 of them)
- Saul> including floppies that I've used on real Macs.
-
- We are currently aware of some people who are still having trouble
- reading and writing Macintosh formatted floppies under Executor/DOS.
- For most of the people with this problem "-nosound" is a temporary
- workaround. There are still a few people for whom this doesn't work,
- and that's a great concern to us.
-
- Saul, however, was running Liinux. I am not sure what was/is causing
- Executor/Linux to not read Mac formatted floppies on his system, but
- other than refunding his money, I will have nothing else to do with
- Saul.
-
- The last e-mail I received from Saul (in September of 1995) contained:
-
- "If I do not hear back from you on this matter, I
- will turn the matter over to my attorney for possible legal
- action under applicable laws."
-
- The matter in question was that Executor/Linux on his system couldn't
- access Mac formatted floppies and we refused to continue discussing
- his problem due to his belligerence. Aside from a slightly larger
- quotation of Saul's own words, my response to that piece of e-mail is
- reproduced between the two lines of "="s.
-
- ============================================================================
- Please do not wait. Turn it over to your attorney now. I look
- forward to hearing from him/her. I am sure he/she will be eminently
- more courteous than you have been.
-
- If you would like a refund of Executor's purchase price, I will give
- you that now, just as I offered previously. If you want to continue
- to send invective and be hostile, and I am asking you to refrain from
- doing so, my response will be the same as it has been most recently; I
- will ignore you.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- sent by e-mail; no signature
-
- Clifford T. Matthews
- President,
- ARDI
- ============================================================================
-
- I was hoping to ignore Saul's first post to c.e.m.e., but seeing
- another post where he claims "I've also had no help from ARDI in
- resolving this problem and only offers to refund my money if not
- satisfied" has spurred me to make this post so that our side is known:
-
- We did indeed try to help Saul
-
- Saul was uncooperative
-
- Only when Saul discarded even the merest pretense of civility
- did we refuse to continue discussing the problem with him
-
- Even though the 30-day guarantee had expired we still offered
- (and still offer) Saul a refund
-
- I hope that people reading this do not worry that they could receive
- the silent treatment from ARDI if they were to overlook a fine point
- of etiquette. That's not what happened. After all, I realize that
- e-mail is an imperfect medium. I try hard to give everyone the
- benefit of the doubt. I understand that when software doesn't work as
- expected it is easy to get upset (we're not too happy about it over
- here). As such, it's extremely unlikely that anyone could
- inadvertantly create such feelings of ill-will as to be denied further
- technical support from ARDI; to reach such a state you would have to
- try very hard.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-