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From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: VAULT problems
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 90 03:40:49 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.034049.21799@watmath.waterloo.edu>
References: <CMM.0.88.661488577.larserio@kvart.ifi.uio.no> <1990Dec19.132054.28228@watmath.waterloo.edu> <27875@cs.yale.edu>
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In article <27875@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes:
>In article <1990Dec19.132054.28228@watmath.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
...
>>Remember Turtle?  Turtle insists that it be in control of everything.
...
>Please, keep your cool and don't start speculations flying on the net.
>All that Lars reported is that he has a problem running THE VAULT and
>DCACHE together.  We don't know what the problem is, but we are trying
>to find it.  Meanwhile, don't run them together.  They both apparently
>work fine for most people most of the time when used separately.
>TURTLE, too, seems to work well for many people, and I don't
>understand your implicit criticism of it.

Sorry.  This was not intended to be a criticism of either VAULT or DCACHE.
I am sure both are fine programs, but I have used only one, with no
complaints.  My criticism, if there was one, was implicit indeed, and
would be more precisely aimed at the absence of a central direction or 
control in the development of software.  I suspect that many users have
found instances, as I have, of software, each one fine by itself, which
clash with each other, because of assumptions made by the author.  In
some case *I assume* that these programmer assumptions include making
use of so called "illegal" locations in the system.  I do not wish
to impune the integrity of any author here.  I am sure that each
does the best that she/he can with what is at hand, and I am grateful
to a number of authors of fine software for the work that they have 
done.

Again, sorry.

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