Michael L. Wilson writes: > I would like to speak a little about operating system stability and > the Bat!. The Bat is written in a very high level language that does > not touch deep operating system problems. Since the Bat! only works > on Windows machines, people really need to look to their OS before > complaining.
It's not the operating system. > The Bat! has always worked well for me. It has been tough to learn, > and I wish they would document, but the program, now at version 3.02.1 > works flawlessly. The program works well enough for me, also, which is why I use it. It does have bugs, though--too many to make it successful as a mass-market or enterprise product. The lack of documentation and support also effectively excludes it from enterprise implementations (few corporations would be willing to roll a program like this out to 40,000 desktops--it would be a support nightmare). > So, before you jump on the instability of The Bat!, backup, reformat > and reinstall. You will be amazed at the speed of your new machine > and how stable it is. Every six months...I am not kidding. You may not be kidding, but the suggestion is nevertheless unreasonable and unwarranted. The OS is not the source of the access violations. I have _never_ done backups, reformats, and reinstallations to fix problems--even for OS problems, it's almost never necessary, especially with today's operating systems. > Every six months, and I have two very stable windows machines. I've had stable Windows machines for a decade, and they've never been reinstalled or reformatted. I back them up regularly, of course, as I would any system, but I've never experienced any problem that required restoring from backup, either. -- Anthony __________________________________________________ Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600
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