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From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.121530.942@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 2 Jun 91 00:15:30 GMT
References: <22877@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <1601@glyph.kingston.ny.us> <21956@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1603@glyph.kingston.ny.us>
Organization: Chem Dept, U of Cant, ChCh NZ
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In article <1603@glyph.kingston.ny.us>, ahh@glyph.kingston.ny.us (Andy Heffernan) writes:
> In article <21956@cbmvax.commodore.com> ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes:
>>In article <1601@glyph.kingston.ny.us> ahh@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan) writes:
>>>In article <22877@shlump.lkg.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
> [...]
>>>Can heavier stock paper be far behind?
>>
>>Look carefully at the page count.  If we go to heavier stock the books
>>will end up a foot thick.  Also remember that there is a direct
>>correlation between paper quality and retail price.  How much do you
>>want to pay for these?
> 
> Oh, yes, I realize very well that good stuff comes at a price.
> That's why I bought a 3000UX instead of a 500.
> Regarding your last question, I'd pay $50-60 for better quality paper,
> or better yet, loose-leaf with binders.  But that's me.

what I'd _really_ like to see if the WHOLE RKM set released on 
disk ( as opposed to just the autodocs ). The Unix box I use has
all it's manuals on a single CDROM, and being able to get the 
machine to search for info (as opposed to thumbing thru often incomplete
indexes on paper manuals) is a real god-send...


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| o      John Davis - CHEM194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz       o |
| o    (Depart)mental Programmer,Chemistry Department    o |
| o  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand o |