[Info-vax] Another VMS-BASIC bug?

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> Okay, HP finally responded today (2014.09.16) but I suspect people here will find their response lacking. If "YOU" want these fixes for "YOUR" platform then "YOU" will need to request them from HP (or perhaps, VSI).
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> Here is the redacted email response from HP (my two questions are numbered; they have inserted responses to them)
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> Here are the answers I received from engineering;
> Xxx Xxxxxxx, HP services
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> 1) Do you know if/when this RTL will be released to the user community? (others have expressed interest)
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> Currently we do not have enough fixes in the BASIC RTL to plan a kit release.
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> 2) Two years ago (Sept-2012) we asked for, and received, a bug fix to our BASIC compiler (QXCM1001232102: Modulo function throws arithmetic integer over flow error with quad value.) Was this a private fix only released to Bell Canada? I do not remember seeing it on your PATCH website.
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> This was a fix given only to Bell Canada. For BASIC compiler also, there are not enough fixes for a kit release.
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> Up until today, I naively assumed that broken software was immediately patched within the next quarter.
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> Neil Rieck 
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
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This is why HP is NOT a valid maintainer of VMS and all it's parts. 
They just don't give a damn.  Milk the cow, but don't feed it.

And this is what VSI will hopefully save us from.