Dosmerge and AutoCAD

[John Sparks]

I am not sure if this is the correct group to post a message about DosMerge,
but since Microport sells the product....

Warning: DosMerge will not work with AutoCAD Release 10. Locus computing
has been notified of this but I am not sure they will do anything about it.

I use AutoCAD at work on a compaq 386, running the latest versions of
Microport Unix and DosMerge. Presently I am using Release 9 of AutoCAD
which works fine. We recently purchased the upgrade to Release 10.
Upon installing it, I found it would not work. The screen just goes 
blank and the cursor seems to appear randomly across the screen. Total
lockup of that dos session. Control-Alt-Del kills the session, back to
unix. We have other 386 machines at work and it will not work on any
of them.

I just wanted to tell this to anyone out there who is thinking about
upgrading to Release 10. Save your money. Autocad won't do anything,
they could care less about dosmerge. Dosmerge (Locus) simply took our
bug report. I hope they decide to fix this problem as AutoCAD R10 is
a significant improvement over R9. It has a true 3D database.

If anyone out there in net land (or anyone at Locus or Microport) has
any idea of what is wrong, I am interested in finding out. And if 
anyone at Locus reads this...:
Please try to fix this problem. Since R10 is Autocad's newest version,
this might influence many of your future sales to engineers for use with
CAD. You can't buy release 9 anymore, so if someone is thinking about or
just bought R10 then they won't go with Dosmerge, since it won't work
with R10. They will be forced into using MSDOS or OS/2. Personally I
like the freedom of having Dos and unix and multiple sessions and I would
hate to have to give that up. But Autocad is my primary application..


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John Sparks

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