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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Uniterm and Easy-Draw metafiles
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:39:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 12:39:42 1987
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Allegedly (haven't tried meself) but believably --

Most of the Atari GEM doc is simply copies of the IBM/PC GEM doc, with
minimal to no retouching, and;

you can get it cheaper by buying the IBM/PC GEM developer's kit and
throwing the software itself away.

Probably still fairly pricey, but might be worth investigating.  Specially
since an institution the size of yours must actually *have* PC-GEM from
DRI running around somewhere or other...

As to the flame, (and as I've said before) absolutely right.  Where's the
******** rest of the OS and the ********* documentation.  Atari keep
saying they're shedding the 'games' image and going for the serious
market.  Serious machines come with the COMPLETE O/S, and with COMPLETE
documentation.  Admittedly, sometimes the COMPLETE doc costs, but at present
prices Atari's incomplete complete doc costs more than the blessed machine.
WRONG!