Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!netserv2!deven From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Reading the keyboard without a window. Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 15:27:05 GMT References: <6675@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1990Feb9.150945.29787@santra.uucp> <131583@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Feb13.140718.26883@santra.uucp> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: justus@robin.hut.fi's message of 13 Feb 90 14:07:18 GMT On 13 Feb 90 14:07:18 GMT, justus@robin.hut.fi (Juhana R{s{nen) said: cmcmanis> Don't you guys get the documentation? Don't you read it? Juhana> Sometimes I wonder this myself. It seems to take much more Juhana> time for a manual than information of all new features and Juhana> promises to cross the Atlantic. When you know that your Juhana> manual (that costs money!) will be old by the time you get it Juhana> into your hands, you decide to wait for the new version. You Juhana> see, we have to live in the future here! Sorry, guy. Doesn't fly. Even with out of date manuals, if you read them carefully, AND followed the guidelines, you would be in the clear. A favorite example is Mindwalker... written under 1.0, but following the guidelines (imagine that!) so it worked with FAST ram, under 1.1, 1.2, 68020 & 68030, 1.3 and undoubtably 1.4 as well. But, if you can get your grubby little paws on the 1.3 RKM's (Includes & Autodocs and Libraries & Devices, especially) [you guys are FAR too into the hardware already...] then DO SO. The 1.3 RKM's were VERY well done, and "worth their weight in gold". Well maybe not, but they definitely are the Amiga system programming "bible" just as K&R's book is for the C language. [Yes, it's hefty praise, and well deserved. Kudos, CATS!] Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.