Bugs, source code, and support (was Re: problem with using phone ...)

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <30 at suntau.UUCP> forrie at suntau.UUCP (System Administrator) writes:
[...]
|>
|>This poor box has so many little bugs... ug!
|>
|>Gee, wouldn't it be NICE if we had access to the SRC CODE for UA?  It would
|>be nice to see some changes, etc.  I wonder if AT&T or anyone out there has
|>either thought of or is working on such a project of replacing the UA?
|>
|>The trouble is:  the UA is a decent interface.  It has a lot of usefulness.
|>So it's sort of like being between a rock and a hard place.  Limits 
|>multiuser security anyways.  
[...]

Although there are some problems with the UNIX pc, the machine does have
quite a few benefits.  UA and specifically what it was written using, TAM,
is no longer a product of AT&T (neither is the UNIX pc for that matter). 
AT&T did supply libtam.a (TAM transition libraries) for those who wrote 
applications (God help them) using it and wanted to migrate to 
UNIX System V Release 3.2.x (on the 386).

AT&T has moved away from TAM, and more now using FMLI.  The "user agent"
on the 386 is called "face" (written using FMLI) and has a new look and feel.
AT&T is also trying to move away from that and more to "Open Look(tm)" 
yet another look and feel..

Hey, why don't you write us a wiz-bang user interface?  :-)

|>Anyhow, any news of the new 'fix-disk' being released at some point, 
|>or is this another GAG that AT&T is playing?  
[...]
There will be one eventually.  Be patient.  The fact that there is no one
"officially" working on the UNIX pc development anymore is the problems
for all the delays...

-Lenny
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