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From: bc@modernlvr.sgi.com (Bill Coderre)
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Subject: Re: Script Manager
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Date: 3 Mar 90 02:25:35 GMT
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ggiergiel@vmsa.oac.uci.edu writes:
|>> Script Manager is poorly documented, incompletely implemented
|>> set of routines that you should avoid at any cost.

|>There is an excellent document available from APDA - Worldwide 
|>Development: Guide to System Software.

|How do you get it and for how much? It is not in my last issue of
|APDAlog. Plus, I am getting sick and tired of paying inflated
|APD prices for preliminary documentation that gets totally rewritten
|way too often.

The best match I found is "Software Development for International
Markets," Apple Computer. No date. It is classified as "Class 1B" -- a
beta draft. It is 300pp and costs $35. Order number A7G0016. 

I should note that the product blurb (on p C-85 of the Fall 89
APDAlog) does not mention the Script Manager outright, but says that
the manual concentrates on "tools and techniques to localize software
products." I've never seen the manual, so I cannot tell just how
"Beta" this manual is.

I am heartened by the fact that Apple has been filling in a lot of
gaps in its documentation recently. Also, recent manuals seem to be of
high technical quality. 

I had a chance to play with SpInside Mac, and it is indeed an okay
stopgap solution -- for those that can get it. Although almost no
revisions have been made to Inside Mac, there are now built-in
pointers to germane Tech Notes and DTS Q&A stacks. (I didn't figure
out how to look up a particular trap or variable, is there a method?)

My only gripes with APDA of late have been:
	that "Programmers' Guide to Multifinder" is out-of-date,
	covering version 1.0 of Multifinder (although this is only a
	guess since NO version information is provided, other than the
	copyright year), and therefore rather overpriced at $20 for 97
	pages (including a sample program listing but NO disk (but
	that sample program is now outdated, anyway, and is found in
	the DTS Sample Code));

	that of the five items I've ordered, three were delayed,
	averaging a week to come back into stock;

	and that their disk storage pages are designed for 5 1/4"
	disks, so Macintosh (3 1/2") disks fall right out.

Obviously, I am a fairly satisfied customer. I just hope that Inside
Mac gets rewritten someday.

bc