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From: ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.3 Libraries And Devices Manual
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Date: 12 Jan 90 16:25:38 GMT
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In article <1990Jan11.232420.5447@ns.network.com> dean@ns.UUCP (Dean C. Gahlon) writes:
>>[Talking about the introduction of the Addison Wesley Libs & Devs Manual]
>	Just one comment on masked boolean gadgets.  The descriptions of the
>fields in the gadget structure claim that the "BoolInfo" pointer should
>go into the "MutualExclude" field of the gadget structure. Given that 1) 
>this doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and 2) the examples all have it 
>in the SpecialInfo field, I'm going to treat it as being that way, but it
>was a little disconcerting at first.

How do you read so fast?  You just got the manual!

We know of a number of problems with this manual, hopefully we will post
long descriptions of them at sometime in the near future.  Here are some
brief descriptions of the ones I know of--send me mail if you find more
(or post to bix, book.comments...):

P 92:   The information about BOOLEXTEND under MutualExclude should
	be under SpecialInfo.

P 133:  There should be two closing braces "}" on this page to finish
	up the example.

P 149:  a bunch of numbers associated with alertMsg are really octal
	and should have leading backslashes.  I have not yet had time
	to look up the correct positioning of the backslashes.
	This happens because troff eats backslashes, so we have to
	double them up.  Guess we missed a few--also look for these
	in printf() statements, where you will find a "0" instead of
	backslash-n.  printf("\n"); --> printf("0");

P 884:  An item in parenthesis starts outside of a NOTE and ends inside
	of it.  Just remove the parenthesis.

P 900:  At the top of the page, after the line "Motor_Off(diskreq1);",
	there should be a FreeMem() of the AllocMem done on p. 899.

Index:  A number of subjects in the index have multiple entries.
	See "Text" for an example.
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