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From: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Better Documentation, a modest proposal
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Date: 5 Nov 89 19:03:48 GMT
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In article <1405@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes:
>Inside Mac is available from APDA in a 3-ring binder format (at least the
>catalog lists it). It still wasn't available last summer due to printing
>problems. Combine the 3-ring format with the technotes and you'd be able
>to keep yourself up to date.

This doesn't solve the problem.  What is needed is a 3-ring binder
format where Apple, instead of (or in addition to) publishing new
books, will fix errors, add pages, add sections to the 3-ring binder
in a timely manner.  It would be unacceptable to have to get a tech
note, try to decide where in the binder it would be most useful/less
confusing, and just shove it in.  The 3-ring binder that apple gives
is (to the best of my knowledge) basically a copy of the standard
Inside Mac with the cover removed and holes drilled in it.  Not very
satisfying.

-Sho
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sho@physics.purdue.edu  <<-- what am I bitching about?  I probably couldn't
                             afford it anyways.