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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Better Docs/more proposals/useful sources of info
Summary: Write a book!
Message-ID: <297@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 89 19:09:39 GMT
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Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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Really, people, a 3-ring binder?  Why not get one of those 6-foot-long
metal catalog binders they use at auto parts stores?  Microfiche, anyone?
I mean, let's bring the solutions up to the 1960s at least.  I'm just
amazed.

Apple doesn't put out a CD-ROM that does the job, and the Inside Mac DA is
not up to date (apparently), so let's go back to paper!  This is the 1990s.
Sheesh.  The answer is, re-write one Inside Mac that is up to date and
which includes the tech notes and sample code and make it available on
CD-ROM.  If you want, you can publish it, too--three-hole-punch it if
you like.  (BTW, many places have equipment to slice the binding off the
soft-cover IMs and whump! punch 3 holes at once--it takes no time.)

I would rather see a more full-blown, Think C-oriented Chernicoff series,
personally, even though it will be outdated eventually.  There's not a
mass-market, but I made some money in the early 80s self-publishing a
"book" of details about the CBASIC compiler.  Maybe what we need here
is a series of pamphlets (Joel West on printing, etc.) that are 
periodically updated.  That way, instead of TN 160, TN 183 and TN210
you could just turn to the MultiFinder pamphlet.

All this complaining says two things: the current solutions aren't
working, and there's money to be made here.

/alastair/