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From: stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms)
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Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
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Date: 25 Mar 90 18:33:21 GMT
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In article <84442@tiger.oxy.edu> hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) writes:
>Since SpInside Mac is causing such a furor because people can't get their
>hands on it AND because the Tech Notes Stack and Q&A stack are available
>apple.com, WHY NOT just amke it available for anonymous FTP from apple.com,
>thereby allowing those who do not have access to a CD-ROM player a chance to
>get their hands on it. If there is some balatantly obvious reason why this
>is an incredibly stupid idea, I'm sure someone will come and cut me off at

I think your forgetting something! SpInside Mac is about 16-18 MEGS the
last time I checked! Now take a stuffit file that big and _binhex_ it,
jeez, your going to be downloading for a long, long, long time. I do
agree in principle but its so impractical. Maybe Apple could release
the monster through APDA and 800K disks for people without a CD drive
(like me).

In any case, SpInside Mac isn't the end-all solution to our docmentation
problems. Inside Mac needs to be completely written, condensed,
reorganized, and re-published on paper. A HC version would be nice too but
it can't replace paper because I like leaving my manuals open during
a crash without using more than one computer..

Josh.