Chain Printing Bug Still!!!

[Robert Holmgren]

Right now, I'm more concerned about chain printing... Which is real work, not
play. It appears there is very little improvement in chain-printing
performance between 4.011 and 4.014. v4.014 bombs just like 4.011, except
slightly further down the line (*after* two files in the chain set, instead of
*during* the second file). I could go on, to explain that I've proven to my
satisfaction in numerous time-consuming ways that the problem lies with EDITOR
and not with my actions or files. E.g., Sig still works OK, where Xy4 bombs,
even when absolutely nothing except the factory PRN file is loaded. But...
right now its more pointful for me to read the MS Word manual than to talk to
you; I need to figure out how to get this printed before the DHL man comes to
pick up my manuscript.

I'm very disappointed. This is BASIC stuff. Am I the only person who writes
books longer than 72 pages with Tables of Contents and Indices? (It bombs on
p. 73, which is nothing in terms of file size, 238K.) That was the same
question I asked last May. Today, as before, there was general hilarity when I
suggested that maybe I'm the only guy. Ho ho ho. But it's gonna turn out that
the bug really is in EDITOR, just like it was before, MARK MY WORDS; and
therefore, perforce, necessarily, I *am* the only person who's writing books
with Xy4, because chain printing is the ONLY way to print books -- and chain
printing DOESN'T WORK!! QED

Moreover, when you guys sent me v4.014, it was accompanied by a piece of paper
that said that chain printing, among other bugs, had been fixed. This AM,
talking to Nicole in Baltimore -- on an unscrambled phone line even -- she
said, well, she knew that under v4.011 it was discovered that Xy4 had printing
problems which Sig didn't have, but that development had been UNABLE TO FIGURE
IT OUT! Come again? Would you repeat that for the press, please?

It's incredibly depressing. You invest a lot of time. You try to be a nice
guy. But you get little for it -- while you guys move relentlessly on to NEW
AND BETTER PRODUCTS! Last time this happened to me, there was a brief show of
concern, and then -- nothing, for a month and a half. In my work (or just
about any work), you're DEAD in a month and a half. Meanwhile I finished my
work with Microsoft Word. Which has become, BTW, a not-bad word processor.
This time, what are we looking at, Christmas or thereabouts? So I think I'll
try -- what? DeScribe? Word Perfect? Any suggestions?