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Date:	Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:24:05 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firebird mystery

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In <200309131828.2371948.6@scoug.com>, on 09/13/03
at 06:28 PM, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" said:

> "August 1, 2003 Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 (Zipfile) and Thunderbird 0.1
> (Zipfile) have been released. Both of these require the C runtime
> DLLs from Innotek. Just copy the two DLLs to the same directory
> as the executables, or put them somewhere in your path."

>These two entries say nothing about all the problems that have been
>ventilated here.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. The only problem I see
reported regularly is that a new release of Mozilla or Firebird will not
start when the icon is clicked. The standard fix is to read the second
sentence and install the neglected runtime DLLs.

I'm sure there are a few other functional problems, since by definition
all the the noted programs are clearly labeled as betas.

What I see happening is the the same few questions getting asked
repeatedly. The usual order that these questions appear over time is:

- the mozilla.os2 newsgroup
- the WarpBrowser Yahoo group
- other newsgroups
- other mailing lists

>generations behind on everything, letting the cutting-edge experts like
>Steve do all the heavy lifting to shake down the latest and greatest.

Assumptions are often wrong. I am not running either Mozilla 1.5b or
Firebird or Thunderbird. Of course, given the clarity of the
instructions, I doubt I will have any problems installing them when time
permits.

>OS/2). There were so many problems they released V 6, but due to version
>incompabitilities, some firms have to keep two separate tracks of
>machines, 5 and 6. All this is thrashed out daily on the PDFZone forum.

Change is not always easy. There were problems when the VLB bus appeared.
There were problems when PCI buses first came out. So it goes. I doubt
many folk would willing return to an Apple II and applications like
VisiCalc.

My style is to pick the tool that works best for me when I take into
account the tradeoffs that will always exist. Older is not always better,
nor is newer.

Steven

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