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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Revised RKM Manuals
Summary: A-W better get it right this time.
Keywords: flame
Message-ID: <7437@well.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 07:39:26 GMT
References: <oXIuwqy00VsfM0jV4J@andrew.cmu.edu> <2694@ingr.UUCP> <18@ssibbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "We've come at the worst possible time -- of course."  -- Avon

In article <18@ssibbs.UUCP> afraser@ssibbs.UUCP (Alex Fraser) writes:
>I called Addison-Wellesley -- they claim that RKM:Exec is done and that
>RKM:Libs+Devs will be shipping in thirty days.  I actually believe this :-).
>
	Addison-Wesley better not screw up this set of the RKM's like they
did the last time.  I still have the original "white" copies of the RKM, and
find them infinitely preferable to the A-W versions.

	The primary reason for this irrational behavior is that A-W
hopelessly screwed up the layout of the AutoDocs.  Instead of functionally
seperating them (exec calls grouped together in one "chapter", graphics in
another, layers in another, and so on), they alphabetized *all* the
Kickstart functions by name and printed them, without regard to what library
they're a part of, making it next to impossible to discover the structure of
Kickstart.

	The A-W versions may have more examples, all of which work, but in
my humble opinion, this is little compensation for wrecking the primary
reference sections.

	Slightly unrelated point:  Whyzzit the DOS functions aren't in the
AutoDocs?  Every time I want to look up a DOS function, I have to dig out
the AmigaDOS Developer's Manual.  It'd be more convenient if they were
listed with the rest of the Kickstart functions.

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