Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!peter From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 1.3 Libraries And Devices Manual Message-ID: <9311@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 12 Jan 90 01:11:22 GMT References: <1990Jan11.163459.1733@ns.network.com> <9298@cbmvax.commodore.com> <21529@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 48 In article <21529@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes: >In article <9298@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes: >>technical descriptions, autodocs, and includes. The new organization >>puts the software manuals into two volumes, one of which contains >>all the includes and autodocs (it's been out for a while, and you've >>likely all seen it) > >Does this manual contain anything not on the NDU from Commodore? It >doesn't make a lot of sense to buy it if not. That info is more useful >on disk anyway. (For those who are wondering, the NDU is the Native Developer's Upgrade, a package available through CATS, containing autodocs and includes on disk. Write to: CATS-Information 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester PA 19380 ) It can be nice to have autodocs and includes in print form too, so here they are. I always had notes marked in the autodocs section of my 1.1 Manuals. The AutoDocs and Includes Manual also contains (among other things) a complete cross-reference of all structures, members, and #defines for the include files, giving sizes, offsets, and values, as well as where in the includes they may be found. Then you have the IFF documentation, sample IFF code, sample device, sample library,... Of course, if you have the autodocs on line, indexed, with instant single key lookup, you would well prefer to have the NDU (or both). By a strange coincidence, I've released a bunch of tools that do just that (freely redistributable, look for "DevKit" on a Fish disk near 300). Anyway, the big news this time around is certainly the software manual, and there's information in there that isn't found anywhere else except in the legends handed down by the ancients... >-- >Eric Kennedy >ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu Peter -- Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer.