Date   : Fri, 13 Jul 1990 14:46:55 EST
From   : SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU
Subject: Replay to Cory Hug

   Cory Hug made the following response to me regarding my questioning of
Nicky's effort to write a program to allow a CP/M computer to work with IBM-
format diskettes:

>> SAGE,
>>      perhaps he is working on this project to help those of us who can't
>> afford the $30 or $45 cost of DosDisk (like me, college student you
>> know).  Or maybe he didn't know about DosDisk.  Or maybe he did and
>> didn't like it.

   If he is working on it either because he did not like DosDisk or because
he wanted to release it freely to the public for those people who cannot
afford $30 (the price for the version for his C128), that is fine.  More
likely -- and this turned out to be the case -- he was completely unaware of
DosDisk.

   There are enough *unavailable* tools to work on that it is a shame to be
duplicating those that already exist.  Since Nicky referred to releasing his
program as shareware, the cost savings over the very inexpensive DosDisk
would be very little, except of course to those who take and use shareware
without paying for it.  Also, of course, Nicky may have more time than
money, and he may prefer to write his own program.

   All this notwithstanding, there are many people reading this digest whom
I would like to be aware of DosDisk.  For them, $30 will immediately provide
their computers with this much needed functionality.