From: "Scott Deming" <sdeming AT concentric DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: SEVERE BUGS in ALLEGRO!
Date: 25 Feb 1997 23:00:37 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Mr. Derbyshire,

Nobody owes you anything.  You are using free software, therefore you have
no right to complain.  Nobody is forcing you to use any of this software. 
You can very easily go out and purchase Watcom C++ and some other
sound/graphics library and create inferior software, and then you can
perhaps call some tech support number and get less than satisfactory
support, but that is your decision.  If you want help with anything you use
for free then you should probably be a bit more reasonable.  From my talks
with Shawn, he'll answer your questions regardles of how you've treated
what he's given the DJGPP world.  Shawn deserves better than this, and
thankfully a lot of people do recognize the heart and soul he puts into his
work.  Allegro is an excellent library that Shawn is continually enhancing
and giving away.  In my oppinion you owe him an apology and I hope you can
shut off your frustration and perhaps apologize to him.

That said, I'd like to show you one major flaw in your code which you must
have missed while putting down Shawn's work:

> load_sample("C:\DJGPP\SOUND001.WAV") and it shoulld CERTAINLY WORK in the

Try: "load_sample("c:\\djgpp\\sound001.wav");

This is C, and in C a backslash '\' in immediate code like that is an
escape character, therefore must be followed by a 2nd '\' to show that you
really want a backslash.

Good luck, I hope to see an apology.

Scott

P.S.  I'm willing to bet that you haven't even bothered to send anything to
Shawn Hargreaves, as the license clearly states.


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