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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 & ResEditFixer: summary (?)
Message-ID: <7196@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:09:18 GMT
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Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 & ResEditFixer: summary (?)
References: <39705@nigel.ee.udel.edu>

johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:

>The Addison-Wesley book is NOT the official documentation for ResEdit.  
>Addison-Wesley publishes several Mac-related technical books, and 
>makes a good buck by virtue of the fact that many Mac-users choose 
>to bypass the official release versions of software like ResEdit.  
>The Apple documentation will be released with the 'official' release 
>of ResEdit 2.1 by APDA.

>a market even for ResEdit 2.0b2 books, for those who "just can't wait".
>I haven't seen it, but I would be willing to bet that it covers most 
>of the features in 2.1.  Where is the crime here?

>A $25 book available world-wide less than two weeks after the software
>is done is expected to be complete?  What would you expect?  It obviously
>must have been written some time ago ...

I don't think that whether or not the book mentioned is the official
documentation is the issue. It's published by Addison-Wesley, who also happen
to publish "Inside Macintosh", etc. and so I consider it to be, at the very
least, Apple-approved. If it WASN'T Apple-approved, you'd soon hear about it.
I feel that Apple has *some* responsibility in these matters. The book had
Apple and APDA scrawled all over it, after all.
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