Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 08:11:23 GMT References: <6389@cbmvax.UUCP> <5241@ardent.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 32 In-reply-to: rap@ardent.UUCP's message of 30 Mar 89 21:43:24 GMT In article <5241@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes: >There are actually 3 versions of the RKM's floating around (soon to be >4 when the full 1.3 version comes out. The first one was "1.0" and I >wrote the entire EXEC portion. The second one is for 1.1, and it was >bound entirely in white. The third one is with a nice Addison Wesley >cover, handles 1.2, and has the Green or Plum or Yellow stripe on the >cover. That Addison-Wesley edition is the one I have. >As updates were made, wording got changed, chapters got moved and/or >replaced. Some useful information, such as the above, mighta gotten >picked up and moved or picked up and deleted by one of the editors >who sincerely believed that certain material was either covered elsewhere >or he/she INTENDED to move it elsewhere. C'est la vie. It happens. I figured as much... >From what I have seen of the Autodoc portion of the 1.3 RKM, and the >amount of work that Bryce has put into it, I'd have to say that the >1.3 RKM, as a bunch, will doubtless be the best of the bunch, most >useful and so on. I'll gladly push the old versions to the back of >the bookshelf in favor of using the new set when it becomes available. I hope they will be the best of the bunch... (it would be nice...) Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.