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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RE: New Amiga RKM available in bookstores
Summary: Leo tries to act as a Bellero Shield.
Message-ID: <10966@well.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 08:52:27 GMT
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "A TOY ROBOT!!  AAAGGGHHHH!!"  -- A Fistful of Yen

[ Eat THIS! ]

	I think the recent attacks on the new Rom Kernel Manuals are in
rather poor taste.  Here, Commodore tries to update its documents (the first
time since 1.1), and everyone jumps on them for little or no reason.

	Poor paper stock:  Ok, this is a valid concern, but almost certainly
this is more the fault of Addison-Wesley than Commodore.  I hardly think
someone at Commodore told A-W, "Use cruddy paper."

	Autodocs printed sideways:  You never complained before.
Personally, I like them that way.  If they printed them one for one, it
would have been twice as thick, cost you (the buyer) twice as much, and
killed twice as many trees.  Do you know how large the UNIX Programming
Manuals are?  On a good day, it take about three BIG binders to hold it all.
Think of the parts catalog you see in auto stores.  You want *that* much
paper to deal with?

	Paperback:  Yeah, I would have liked to see a binder format.  Bryce
Nesbitt made some comments on BIX about how he arranged stuff in the books.
The IFF stuff is all grouped at one end, and the introductions at the other.
The includes and autodocs are in the middle.  Since the includes and
autodocs are used most frequently, the IFF and introductory material act as
weights to hold the book open.  Also, he made sure the gutter margins (the
margins toward the spine of the book) were as wide as possible, so you could
read that material without stressing the book.  It also means you can take
the book to a printer/binder, have him/her shear off the binding and drill
three holes in it, and reasonably expect that you won't drill through any
valuable material.

	Although I have not seen the new book, I have read many descriptions
of it, and it looks like Commodore went back to the original "white book"
format, which I think is superior.  And like the guy said, if you don't like
it, print up your own copy from the developers disks.  But like I said, I
think complaining about it is kinda in bad taste.  It certainly won't make
anyone feel *good* about doing the next set of manuals.

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