Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataioDataio.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!bright
From: bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: IBM Graphics Development Toolkit (VDI)
Message-ID: <911@dataioDataio.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 13:31:14 EST
Article-I.D.: dataioDa.911
Posted: Wed Feb 12 13:31:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 04:36:37 EST
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA
Lines: 34

I have been working with the VDI stuff for a while now, and
have been trying out various demos. The problem is that IBM provides
many listings of demo programs in the documentation, but doesn't
provide them on the disk, even though there is room for them. They
expect you to type in 10 page examples. Forget it.

Does anybody have any flashy demo programs in C for VDI that can
be emailed to me? Thanks in advance,

			Walter Bright

By the way, IBM did something with the documentation that I find
extremely irritating, a number of other software vendors inflict the
same thing on their users:

They provide a nice half-size binder and manual. However, they also
provide FIVE (count-em) odd-size pamphlets. The pamphlets are
an indispensible part of the documentation. They don't fit in the binder.
Holes can't be punched in them, because there isn't enough margin for
them (you risk punching out valuable information). Those stupid pamphlets
are going to get lost.

Other vendors do similar things, like provide a half-size binder and
then update sheets that are full-size(!!!). (I even once got a full size
manual and half-size update sheets... I xeroxed the updates onto full
size paper and punched them into the manual).
Or they provide a bunch of loose scraps of paper. When will vendors
realize that desks are
normally cluttered with junk, and that ALL material provided with a
product should be physically connected together?

I also hate documentation that is bound in such a way that no pages
can be added. What do vendors expect you to do with the errata
sheets (Turbo Pascal is an offender here)? Answer: lose them.