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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More Help with ScrnBase, Please
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Date: 30 Aug 90 21:53:08 GMT
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In article <1311@radius.com> lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes:
> 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?

The issue is certainly one of time, just not of the time it takes to build 
the index.

A while back, the Electronic Media Group of Developer Press indexed the CD 
(I believe it was the release "Phil and Dave's").  They had been led to 
believe that building the index and then changing a file or two would have 
no ill effect on the index, so the CD went final AFTER the index had been 
built and AFTER a change of a few words had been made to a text file.

Guess what?  Sure enough--the index was totally useless.

Can you say "once bitten, twice shy?"  The great folks in the EMG have 
enough blood, sweat, and tears shed getting the CD out the door without 
going through that experience again, and since things really do get down 
to matters of hours when they go final, they just can't index the beast 
with any assurance that something won't have to change after that.

So you're on your own for indexing the current CD.  To be fair about it, 
so's everyone else!  What I do when I get the new CD is start indexing on 
my IIx before I go home some evening; that way the index is waiting for me 
the next day.  It's not too painful.  (In your case, you should index on a 
local machine, of course, rather than over the network.)

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

chewy@apple.com

Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe 
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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