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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:11:54 -0700
To: "W. Knox Richardson" <knoxrich@netcom.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in toolbar]
Subject: SLL: Letter to Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Cc: pmitch@primenet.com
References: <3.0.3.16.19971028064611.31ef36d8@pop.primenet.com>
I stand corrected.
Thank you.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://supremelaw.com
At 01:28 PM 10/28/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Gates isn't president of Microsoft. He is the chairman and chief
>executive officer.
>
>His email is billg@microsoft.
>
>wkr
>
>On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:
>
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>>
>> MEMO
>>
>> TO: Bill Gates, President
>> Microsoft Corporation
>>
>> FROM: Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
>> Counselor at Law
>>
>> DATE: October 28, 1997
>>
>> SUBJECT: Forward Incompatibility
>>
>>
>> I am writing this letter to bring to your specific attention a
>> fault which we have isolated in Windows 95/OSR2, and to request
>> your immediate attention to restoring functionality which was
>> working just fine in DOS 6.22.
>>
>> I do believe your strategic thrust to emphasize interactive modes
>> has resulted in certain identifiable oversights in the area of
>> batch processing. I refer you specifically to the DOS SET
>> command, and to the command-line options which were available
>> under DOS Version 6.22. The option in which we are most
>> interested, at the present time, is "/M".
>>
>> We require the ability for a user program, e.g. QBASIC or other
>> language processor, to modify an environment variable, and this
>> modified variable MUST keep the value we assign to it, AFTER the
>> user program stops.
>>
>> I refer you to the similar complaints which author Dan Gookin has
>> written in his excellent work entitled "Advanced Batch File
>> Programming," 3rd edition, published by Windcrest/McGraw-Hill.
>> See "Manipulating the environment," pages 292-296. Quoting now:
>>
>> "For some reason, assigning variables with ENVIRON is only a
>> temporary thing. ... [W]hen I was able to assign a
>> variable, once I quit BASIC and returned to DOS, that
>> variable was gone. (The SET command did not display it.)"
>>
>> Although there is no publisher on this planet who can claim total
>> perfection at all times, I do hope you will agree with me when I
>> say that McGraw-Hill has a rather stellar reputation when it
>> comes to printing reliable computer documentation. My own
>> experience last weekend empirically confirmed Gookin's statement
>> immediately above.
>>
>> Although we had intended to standardize on Win95/OSR2 for all
>> machines currently in use by our development team, the fault in
>> the SET command now requires that we run a hybrid network, with
>> some machines still running Windows 3.11 under DOS 6.22. Your
>> decision to remove functionality from the SET command is the real
>> reason why this choice had to be made.
>>
>> Can you please instruct your development team to patch OSR2, and
>> make it available for Internet download, with terse and correct
>> instructions for those of us who need, and will benefit from,
>> this feature?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your consideration in this matter.
>> Although it may not seem important to you, it is very important
>> to us.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>>
>> /s/ Paul Mitchell
>>
>> Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
>> Counselor at Law and federal witness
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>>
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Paul Andrew Mitchell, Sui Juris : Counselor at Law, federal witness 01
B.A.: Political Science, UCLA; M.S.: Public Administration, U.C.Irvine 02
tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night 03
email: [address in toolbar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU 04
website: http://supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now 05
ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best 06
Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone 07
Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this 08
_____________________________________: Law is authority in written words 09
As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall 10
not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. 11
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