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From: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My turn to flame at C/A...
Message-ID: <1222@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 01:05:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1222
Posted: Sat Jun 13 01:05:18 1987
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References: <8706110829.AA11035@violet.berkeley.edu> <2003@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <3935@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: ford@crash.CTS.COM (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Summary: Agreement about documentation publicity/disribution problems

In article <3935@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <2003@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
><What paperwork ?  As announced many times, you can get the
><1.2 Autodocs on a disk from us by sending $20.00 [...]
>
>Announced? Where? I've never seen it before. In fact, I had a
>newly-registered developer asking me what the 1.2 Native Developers
>Update was in a reply to my posting. Someone else told me in another
>reply, so I forwarded it.

I agree -- I'm a commercial developer, and I had NEVER heard about the Autodocs from
any official C=A source until I had been accepted as a developer.  There was a little
paragraph that said something like "... and you will receive the latest Autodocs ...".
I wouldn't have had any idea what they were talking about if I hadn't heard about them
from other sources.

But, to C=A's credit, in the back of the A2000 manual there is a list of available
sources of information, grouped into introductory, programming, and advanced/technical,
or something like that.  But I think they only listed the Addison/Wesley and other
major publishers' books.  I hope they will at least give some little pointer to CATS,
even if it is in the tech manuals, so people know it exists.

So, here's to [hopeful] improvement in C=A publicity!


Michael "Ford" Ditto				-=] Ford [=-
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Michael "Ford" Ditto				-=] Ford [=-
P.O. Box 1721					ford@crash.CTS.COM
Bonita, CA 92002				ford%oz@prep.mit.ai.edu