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From: perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WP Manual Wanted
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Date: 2 Mar 90 18:48:02 GMT
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In article <676@xyzzy.UUCP> poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (  Poirier local) writes:
>In article <12214@baldrick.udel.EDU> AXTBF%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Tim Friest - programmer at large) writes:

>>Hear at the University of Alaska Anchorage, we have a volume purchase deal with
>>WP Corp which lets us make X number of copies...  If the various departments
>>want manuals, they have to get them on their own.

>Did UA-Anchorage spring for a sufficient quantity of manuals, or does "on
>their own" in practice mean a trip to the copy machine?  Not an accusation,
>just curious.

We have several packages here that are "site licensed" (not WP though).
If I want the program on my machine, I can get it "free", but if I want
my own copy of the manual, my department has to cough up the money from
its own budget.

For some software we can Xerox our own copies, (or print from on line
docs) but if you are doing a whole book at 5 to 10 cents a page (plus
your time and hassle when the paper feed jams) you might as well buy
it. 

>>WP Corp does sell the manuals seperately, contact them.

There are also aftermarket WP manuals (not for the amiga version) maybe for 
less in the local bookstores.  Most of these are probably sold to 
pirates who want to get the PF key templates, but it is nice to dream that
at least some of them go to legitimate users.

>>Of course, if you are pirating, you deserve all the condemnation you get...



-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com