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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: BOOKS
Message-ID: <51028@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:33:11 GMT
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In article <1991Mar30.080621.12862@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> kempkec@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Christopher Kempke) writes:
>In article <93RLZ3w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> jeffb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Jeffrey Boser) writes:
>>I am sick and tired of people looking for alternatives for IM.
>          [...]
>>Here is the jist of my gripe:  IM is *the* reference for the macintosh
>>Toolbox.  There are NO alternatives.  The Primer, Mac Revealed and others
>>are nice introductions to IM, providing examples that can enlighten and
>>instruct, but they do *not* contain the plethora of information that IM
>>does.  
>
>	Of course, IM is incomplete, containing nothing about Multifinder,
>	Gestalt, etc etc. that is in many of the other books.  It's also
>	inaccurate -- just TRY writing anything using the sound manager with
>	just the information in IM.
>
>	I'm not trying to knock Inside Macintosh, it's just that until Apple
>	can start releasing DOCUMENTATION with their system software to
>	people who can't afford the $600-a-year or whatever fee to be
>	a "registered developer", people WILL want and need correct
>	documentation, and will continue to look to sources other than IM
>	for that information unless IM can provide it in a timely manner.
>	(Some three years out of date does NOT constitute a timely manner).

Chris,

Please don't forget that Inside Mac is not the _only_ source of
technical information from Apple. Inside Mac is augmented by Technotes,
which are updated once every two months. To get these technotes, you
can either pay a small amount to APDA (you don't even have to be an
APDA member) or you can download them from any of the numerous
electronic services that archive them. If you don't want to pay the
cost of download time, then you can freely copy from any of your
friends who have them. You do NOT have to be a "$600-a-year or
whatever registered developer" to get timely and updated information.

Issues like problems with the Sound Manager and MultiFinder have been
dealt with in technotes. "Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder" is also
available from APDA. Gestalt will be discussed in Inside Mac vol VI.

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