<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>I bought a combination book and software package from Wrox Press.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>It emphasized strongly and repeatedly that it ran on DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS and DR-DOS) - no need for Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, etc.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york,
times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I telephoned their technical support countless times, trying to get it to work.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>It turned out that the installation program needed Windows 95.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>The
technical support people had no idea that it required Windows 95.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Somehow they did not tell the software developers to make installation too run on DOS.</span></div><div><br>James E. McIntosh</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><a href="mailto:JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div></font>| I watched the "crash" from pretty close on in 2002-2003; was doing<br>| some review work for Wrox back at that time, when they effectively<br>| imploded. Around 2000, all kinds of publishers were pushing out crazy<br>| amounts of stuff, particularly in the technical book arena.<br></div></div> </div> </div></body></html>