Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!fbog!dbk From: dbk@fbog.UUCP (Dave B. Kinzer @ Price Rd. GEG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Revised RKM Manuals Summary: Read your UNIX Manuals Keywords: (your) flame Message-ID: <1350@fbog.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 88 01:11:13 GMT References: <2694@ingr.UUCP> <18@ssibbs.UUCP> <7437@well.UUCP> <658@ardent.UUCP> Reply-To: dbk@fbog.UUCP (Dave B. Kinzer @ Price Rd. GEG) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Tempe, Az. Lines: 34 [Many deletions] |> 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. | |I also keep a copy of the original white copy around and use it exclusively. | |I don't know whether they'd reorganize it "back" to the way it was based on |your (and my) complaints, but as I remember, I caught SO much flack from |unix-oids once the white books were issued that I was TOLD to alphabetize |everything because once someone heard the name of a function, they insisted |that they be able to go directly alphabetically to the function and not have |to stop and figure out what KIND of function it was, going to the appropriate | |Rob Peck |>Leo Schwab Then how come all the string functions in the UN*X manuals are under "STRING(3C)". Or, where is "fgetc()"? Maybe you should have alphabatized exec, layers, graphics, etc. :-) :-) I only have the white copys, tell those in power that. -- | @ @ // Save the Ewacs Society Dave Kinzer | | L // noao!nud!fbog!dbk | | \_/ \X/ "My employer's machine, my opinion." (602) 897-3085 |