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On 1 MAY 90 Cobus de Beer, when talking about Repertoire, added this:

>Don't ever buy a library from Software Artistry because the M2 libraries are
>junk.  Even the demo programs don't work properly.  I have reported many bugs
>and have not received a single reply or correction.

To each his own... The group that I work with used to utilize Repertoire
(version 1.5e and predecessors) but eventually abandoned it. Perhaps our needs
weren't complex enough; we only needed a menu/help system. Rep gives you that
and more; as Cobus mentions, this comes at a price of a 460 page manual and
the necessity of a couple of years spent learning the system. Bug free it isn't
but the telephone support was very good; 90% of our phone calls to PMI resulted
in the revelation that we had had a misunderstanding with the manual (pilot
error!!).
We now use Software Artistry for our menu/help system. The source code comes
with the product; we've altered it a little to better fit our needs. Price
(about a year ago) was $100. There are no additional fees involved. We did
find bugs in the product but not 'many' as Cobus reports. And the demo
programs worked fine.
Certainly the $9 or so in postage for Repertoire minus source code is a bargain
and is to be recommended. But if you are after simple, easy to understand
code (possibly to put in a commercial product) then perhaps a library from
another vendor would be better.


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