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From: gsbrob1@apcvxa.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Inside Mac
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Date: 2 Nov 88 05:03:44 GMT
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>For ease of updating, nothing beats loose leaf.  For ease of handling and
>robustness, nothing beats a properly bound book.  Trouble is, what we have
>at present is bound books plus a pile of scattered TNs and no easy way
>of finding where the latest version of some piece of info is.
> 
>The best feature of IM is the index.  From day one of programming the
>Mac, I have rarely had any difficulty in locating information in IM
>(when it is there :-).  This is not true of TNs.  I would like to see a
>single joint index to all the volumes of IM and all the TNs, in the
>same level of detail as the current IM indexes, a new version of the
>whole index going out with each distribution of TNs.  TN0 just isnt
>good enough.
> 

In general a bound book is more robust, but my paperback IM 1 hasn't held up
all that well.  Each chapter has more or less fallen out on it's own.  Ah well,
I guess it's time to spring for a new copy.  :->.

One piece of info about the index: there's a book put out by Apple/A-W called
"Inside Macintosh X-Ref" which indexes all 5 volumes of IM, Tech notes thru '87
I think, and about 3 other new tech references put out by Apple.  It's about
$10 over here.  Of course it's not completely up to date, but it might be
helpful to you.

Robert 
gsbrob1@apcvxa.uchicago.edu
ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu

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