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From: caf@omen.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 16:44:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: omen.587
Posted: Tue Sep 29 16:44:20 1987
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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In article <1796@tekgen.TEK.COM> sytek@tekgen.UUCP (Mike Ewan) writes:
:The way I figure it, the softbound manuals are an insidious copy protection
:scheme.  As hard to hold open as they are, they are even harder to run 
:through a copy machine.  And who wants a compiler without documentation.

My first impression of the TurboC manuals was that they had advertisements
where the index should have been.  And it is more of a pain than should
be required to locate a given piece of information (TC is is in the second
or third dozen of different compilers I have worked with over the years)
relating to TC's unique aspects.

If the bound manuals provide a slight degree of copy protection, fine,
why not?  I don't find the binding to be any problem, and the manuals
do take up less space on the shelf.

To be truthful, with all the problems I've been having lately with pirated
and hacked copies of my DSZ prograa, with the resultant loss of registration
revenue, I may be more willing to support reasonable anti-ripoff tactics
than might otherwise be the case.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX Author of Pro-YAM communications Tools for PCDOS and Unix
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