More oddities...

searching for "mpe/ix" returns "0 items match your criteria"
searching for "MPE/IX" returns "page cannot be displayed"; hitting "refresh"
at this point comes up with "error invalid group type"
Ditto for "MPE/iX"
and "MPE/ix" comes back with "0 items match..."

Searching for just "MPE" [regardless of case] returns dozens of HP-UX
references and the aforementioned webwise software buried deep in the list
(and it does contain the text "MPE/IX" in the header)

I take it then the "/" has a special meaning to the search engine.

I also take it that while Webwise is indeed the "first" product offered this
way, but it is also the ONLY product CURRENTLY offered this way [with the
caveat, "more to come soon..."]  So, to answer Mark's original question
[what do you think of ordering software this way?] I really think the
concept is "great".  The unfortunate thing is that since I'm looking at a
catalog with one useful page, and only one item on that page, the
implementation thus far, well, isn't "great".  [but that's a data entry
issue]

What I'd like to see, independant upon whether or not it can be "ordered"
this way, would be an actual honest-to-goodness catalog of software
available from HP -- compilers, optimizers, security tools, report writers,
editors, web servers, etc. -- and perhaps some indication of whether or not
it is currently part of the FOS or not...

Hence, the search for "COBOL" earlier -- is that currently an "add-on"
product, or is it part of FOS like the "C" compiler (I'm presuming the "C"
compiler is part of FOS now since it is needed for support of Posix)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Gambrell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 6:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] CSY now selling software online
>
>
> Stan Sieler wrote:
> >
> > Re:
> > > Depot web site at http://www.software.hp.com.  The first
> product to be sold
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >    Bad request
> >    Your browser sent a query this server could not understand.
> >
> > It's real hard to resist a straight-line like that, but I will!
> >
>
> I get this, too on the above URL.
> Bad request
> Your browser sent a query this server could not understand.
>
> I also still can't get to jazz.external.hp.com, I get "A network
> error occured while Netscape was receiving data (network error:
> connection reset by peer)...
>
> Using Netscape 4.75 and nothing special on the input side, but
> I am going through UTC's NAT, I think.
>
> Richard
>
> > P.s.: both Netscape and MSIE failed to get anything from that URL...
> > but just for Steve and me.  All the other computers in the office
> > can see it!  (Yes, I turned off AtGuard first)
> > Stan Sieler
> [log in to unmask]
> > www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html
www.allegro.com/sieler

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Richard L Gambrell
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