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From: jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker)
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Subject: Re: What manuals?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 17:09:31 GMT
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It's typical of Microsoft. We bought their MS-DOS adaptation kit. The
documentation was terrible, and all in readme files. The kit was beaucoup
bucks. If you wanted support for the package, it was $10,000.00. The
explanation for creating a boot sector and bootable disk was laughable,
and the sample code didn't work. There were files missing from the disk
so the "Make" procedure failed. Microsoft's own make program is so
pitiful that they supplied a custom "imake.exe" which is an unreleased
product. The BASIC adaptation does not allow you to add new key words
to the language. Constants were supplied for things like MAX_SCREEN_LINES,
but we found that many routines had the number 25 hardcoded anyway. In other
words, junk. 

-jaz