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From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Abacus books, Mark Williams C
Message-ID: <403@atari.UUcp>
Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 14:15:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 28 14:15:37 1986
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In article <84@uwmacc.UUCP>, demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) writes:

>    If the boys at Atari feel the Abacus information is often
> inaccurate (which, no doubt, is true), then why don't you produce
> some decent documentation yourselves at a reasonable price. (Sorry, 
> but I don't consider paying $300.00 for some books and a so-so C
> compiler any great shakes. Very IBMish...naughty-naughty.)
>    The Abacus books are flawed, but they at least give us a starting
> point to work from...plus they are only $20 each...
> 

Which is why we've been working on a reference book for commercial
publication.  Hope to get it out by Xmas.

>    One more complaint: I paid $900 for a machine that I really like,
> but it came with a comic book for documentation. 6 monthes after I
> have my machine, I find out (thru the net, so thank you to all those
> on the net) that it has all sorts of little interesting features like:
> hitting the right mouse button to grab something from an inactive window,
> hitting ALT-HELP at anytime to produce a screen dump, etc.

Page 16 of the 520ST user manual talks about the ATL HELP screen dump.

The right mouse button trick is an accidental side-effect of the code in
the OS.  You folks on the net knew about it before we did!  If not for groups
like the net, all the little goodies in the computer (which we couldn't
hope to document) would ever be known.  Thanks!
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