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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More Help with ScrnBase, Please
Message-ID: <1311@radius.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 06:20:31 GMT
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chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:

>It's true that the sum total of information about Macintosh programming is 
>scattered all over.  We're working on ways to consolidate it.  The 
>Developer CD is a good example--IM I-V, the Tech Notes, sample code, etc. 
>all in one place.  It's worth the price of the CD-ROM drive, in my opinion.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sure is, especially when that CD-ROM drive can sit on an AppleShare
server, with the latest Developer CD in it, available to an entire
engineering department (or entire company, depending on how the server
is set up, though in our case the server is for engineering only).

There have been many times when I have been looking for some tidbit of
information or some file, and I just KNOW that it's on the CD-ROM.  I'd
like to publicly thank Apple for putting together such a great resource
for the developer community - keep it up!

One minor complaint (you KNEW there was a catch, right?):  In the past,
OnLocation files were included on the CD (and on the latest one, the old
OnLocation files are STILL there), but there is no file for the PRESENT
disc.  Yes, it says I can build it myself, but I don't want to!  Since
the CD _IS_ on a file server, even though it's on Ethernet, it would take
forever to build the stupid index.  How long would it REALLY have taken
(on a IIfx, with a hard disk-based pre-release of the CD-ROM) to build
the index?

OK, that was basically it.  I still like the CD, it's just that there's
SO much information on it, it's sometimes hard to find stuff...

--Steve
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