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From: jsm@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (Jonathan Meltzer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Warning about How to Write Macintosh Software.
Message-ID: <162@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 18:03:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 15 18:03:20 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 06:14:34 EDT
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Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: book by Scott Knaster.

In article <2849@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> ix21@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (David Whiteman) writes:
>How to Write Macintosh Software by Scott Knaster, an Apple Press
>book in the Hayden Macintosh Library, published by Hayden Book
>Company.  This book was advertised in the third issue of the first
>volume of the Software Supplement.  While I have no complaints about
>the content of the book, my copy and all the other copies delivered
>to the B Dalton BookSellers in my area all had some production
>defects:  pages 19-49 were bound into the book upside down except in
>the copy in which I later exchanged which did not have those pages
>at all.  If you intend to purchase this book I suggest you examine
>the copy before buying it.
>

My copy is OK - maybe the bad batch is limited to California?
Looks like a very informative, useful book. 
Another new book from Apple Press is "Object-Oriented Programming on the 
Macintosh." Any comments re: its quality?



Jon Meltzer
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell University
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