Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:3040 comp.sys.mac:22482 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!spdcc!ima!haddock!suitti From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Inside Mac Message-ID: <10411@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 4 Nov 88 20:19:52 GMT References: <3f64757b.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 51 In article <3f64757b.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes: > > How does this sound? > Apple can set up anonymous FTP at Apple.Com, ... I'd really like to have a machine readable version of Inside Mac. Having it available via FTP or UUCP or just dialin would be nice, but I don't think Apple would go for it. I suppose I could call California (from Boston) at midnight, set up the transfers and go to sleep... It might not be finished in the morning. Kermit tends to get about 70 CPS throughput for this sort of thing. That's only about 2 MB in eight hours. IF I had a 2400 baud modem, and IF I could get 240 CPS continuous throughput, it would still be only 8 MB per night. It would be a hassle. It would not be free (I'd pay the phone company, I'd be adding overhead to Apple, which I'm sure would be reflected in my next Apple purchase). Then you want me to print it? How long will that take on an Imagewritter II? How much will that cost me (paper ribbons, Imagewritter II's)? OK, so I have a laser printer. I still would want to print it double sided so that it wouldn't be five feet thick. To my knowledge, USoft Word doesn't have a "print double sided" option (the one I want is where you print the odd pages, then print the even pages), so I'd have to manually feed each page, flipping it by hand. And of course, you have to use better (more expensive) paper for double sided work (otherwise the paper gets mutilated & causes paper jams). Then I'd bring the result to Kinko's (copy shop) and have it edge bound (notebooks are so cumbersome and the pages come out when reading on the subway on the way to work). There. Done. And its almost as cheap and high quality as going down to Wordsworth and buying it outright. Of course, I bought IM I-V and the Human Interface Guidelines. I wish I could pick up the technotes at my local bookstore. I'm almost done reading IM Vol I. I constantly refer to it. Apple might go for selling disks. I haven't the foggiest notion of how many 800K disks this would take. It might make an excellent CD ROM application. For that matter, it might make a good CD & Hypercard application. All sorts of built in cross referencing and searching... It might be the application that would get me to buy a CD drive (though I'm hoping that WORM or WMRM optical technologies will win). If more developers have CD drives, more developers will be tempted to market stuff for them. Microsoft is doing something like this (I got something in the mail recently). I don't recall exactly what the documentation was about, though it either had something to do with OS/2 or uSoft C. Stephen.