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Kent,

I saw Leon's posting on USENET also.  Yeah, the one saying that "OXXI cannot
support or sell my product anymore."  I have not talked to Leon, but I did 
talk to Oxxi in the last month.  The gist of things (Oxxi perception) is that
they are still distributing and will support the product.  The person that I
talked to indicated that they are talking/negotiating with Leon to re-establish
their business relationship.  They indicated the delivery of manuals "in a finalform" is still planned.  

(My opinions $ON)

Benchmark is impressive.  It is fast.  It does most (but not all?) library
opening for you.  Example programs do not open intuition, DOS, or the graphics
libraries.  Sure would like to have a debugger...  But love the easy-use 
modules.  There are some really nice examples.  I cannot say whether it works
well on 512K...I have 1.5Mb...but I know that TDI v 3.0 doesn't cut it on 512K.
The TDI modules that I've converted have gotten smaller and the source cleaner
as a result of the library modules provided.  Easier to convert C examples, too.

TDI seems to have kinda "dropped from sight."  Anyone know what is going on?
I tried for a week to get some technical feedback regarding an extremely 
irritating bug, finally wrote it up on paper and sent it in.  I did get a 
form letter acknowledging that I was having problems with version 3.0 and that
a new release fixing (the known?) problems was due.  Nothing since (3 months?)
The postmortem debugger is a lot better than no debugger.

M2Amiga sounds like it has the same baseline as Benchmark.  The symbolic
debugger has real promise (if it works well).  The "leaner" interface to the 
system is very promising-sounding.


Some shake-out is on the horizon....

...enough blathering for one sitting...my employer probably does not share my
opinions...

Harry Muttart
(I stopped barking long ago; took up purring as a hobby, to the delite of 
friends and family.)