Re: Deskjet driver for GEM/3 Help pse

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From: Bernard Peek
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 09:14

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In article <1995Jan5.001053.247@vale.demon.co.uk>
           steved@vale.demon.co.uk "Steve Durbin" writes:

> In <789173700snz@rjwright.demon.co.uk> Robert@rjwright.demon.co.uk (Robert
>  Wright) writes:
>
> >DR did not answer my letter and I expect they no longer support GEM.

I believe that they sold the rights to Gem to the German team that
wrote Artline.

>
> Even when they did support was pretty appaling. We bought the last version
> of GEM Artline direct from them, and found it had a few very irritaing bugs.
> The support line's reaction was "Well, we can give you a refund then.". I took
> the offer and went to Corel.

Artline runs under GEM 4, the version with Bezier curve support. V4
was never released as a stand-alone product. I worked in tech-support
for a GEM based product. DR's tech support was enthusiastic but not
very helpful.

--
Bernard Peek
I.T and Management Development Trainer to the Cognoscenti
(In search of Cognoscenti.)
bap@intersec.demon.co.uk

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