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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS puzzle #1
Message-ID: <4833@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 04:37:34 GMT
References: <238@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <552@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <45133@clyde.ATT.COM>
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In article <45133@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
}To what extent Microsoft is responsible for the "TSR mess", I can
}not say.  They have a very good and full explanation of how to
}program TSR's in their Encylopedia.  However, most of the what
}you call the TSR mess is due to poor programming.

Except that you are forgetting that people were writing TSRs for about five
years before the MS-DOS Encyclopedia (non-buggy version) was available.  If
MS had started right out with documentation such as the Encyclopedia, and
pushing for a standard (such as TeSseRact, which is used by a number of 
programs such as Borland's THELP.COM), things would be a lot less messy.
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