Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpf!bird
From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Toolbox Reference Errata
Message-ID: <8586@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 12:38:42 GMT
References: <31468@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <31468@apple.Apple.COM>, by mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage):
> 
> The Toolbox and the Manuals were evolving and changing at the same time.  We
> didn't wait until the Toolbox was super-solid and pretty much unchanging
> (around 3.1, by most accounts) before *starting* to write the Toolbox
> Reference set.
> Apple went ahead with them at the same time knowing that most people
> would want the information, given the caveat that it could change.

> My APDAlog (actually, Llew's) shows the _Toolbox Reference Update_ at $30.
> Your current books aren't "obsoleted"; this new one supplements them.

There are two points to the above that concern me:

1. Since any reasonable person knows that the documentation is going to
   change, why is it printed in a hardbound book. Why not print it in
   ring binder format so corrected/added pages can be inserted?

2. When one gets an update, that means you have to go into the
   mode where you have to look something up twice. Once in the original
   book and then once more in the supplements. Given Apple's indexing
   scheme (each new issue will have the same subject indexed elsewhere
   unless it has been removed from the index), it can take some time.
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				Joe Walters att!ihlpf!bird   
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