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From: mikek@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Mike Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My White Knight 11.0 update arrived!
Message-ID: <780079@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:06:30 GMT
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Well, I just got my copy of WK 11 too, what a nice surprise to get it so 
quickly. I haven't run the program yet, but I did read through the manual.
I'd like to offer a couple of comments about the manual.

The folksy nature is fun too read, and I think it acts as a good tutorial. I
would like to see a separate section that just boils down the facts into a 
more usable REFERENCE.

Compuserve B file transfer protocol just dropped off the face of the earth.
There was absolutely NO mention of it in the manual. Scott, when you make 
such significant changes from one rev to another, don't you think it at least
deserves a mention in the manual. There should be a chapter way up front in
the manual devoted to major changes from previous rev like this. The example
dialog with Compuserve you have in the manual uses XMODEM protocol. Is this
the best choice, and won't this require more user interaction for downloading?
XMODEM does not send the file name at the beginning of the transfer acording
to your description of transfer protocols. What is the history of Compuserve B
and the new derivatives now available on Compuserve? I thought you were the 
one who invented it. Why abandon it now?

On the positive side, I found the file transfer chapter excellent in describing
what xfer protocols are all about and how each of the protocols differed.

There should be a Chapter describing the step by step procedure to translate
10.3 settings, procedures, and macros into WK11. Yes, I know the info is there,
but it's all scattered about.

About the program itself, I sure hope the poster of this basenote is wrong 
about the Command key not working. I have an original Mac upgraded to 1MegKE.
And like him, I don't want to have to reeducate my fingers.

That's all for now.