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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: manual bundling silliness
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Date: 23 Aug 90 18:37:26 GMT
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In article <1990Aug23.012658.6253@sobeco.com> lamy@sobeco.com (j.lamy) writes:
>Anyone at Mips care to comment on why the user documentation set
>contains the STREAMS programmer's guide but omits the language and
>compilers guide (where the debugger is documented!).  Last I checked,
>Mips was still shipping a C compiler and dbx standard with their systems,
>and I think that there is a marginally wider interest in that sort of
>stuff than in STREAMS programming.
>
>Having to fork off $$$ to get a manual for such basic information
>as using the debugger and tips to write efficient code seems absurd.

I agree, I believe this is a packaging error.  I have proposed that the
STREAMS book be moved to the optional programmer's set, and the RISCompiler/C
Programmer's Guide (and possibly the Porting Guide) be moved to the RISC/os
set.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                  MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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