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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Revised RKM Manuals
Message-ID: <5920@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 28 Oct 88 01:46:19 GMT
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in article <1350@fbog.UUCP>, dbk@fbog.UUCP (Dave B. Kinzer @ Price Rd. GEG) says:
$ |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
$ 
$    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 like the solution used for the Mortimer books: organize it by
exec/layers/etc., but put an alphabetical quick-index on the inside of
the cover. The original V7 manuals did something of the same... one of
the sad things to happen to the Unix manuals was when the alphabetical
function-index went away.