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- On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
- [...]
- > That's absolutely not real. You can get them (at least in germany) in every
- > book store which gets his books from the KNoe book service (just looked
- > in the actual 95/96 catalog), price:
- > 73.-- DM Hardware, Devices
- > 97.90 DM Includes & Autodocs
- > 99,90 DM Libraries
- > 55.-- DM Style Guide
-
- Thats 397.80 DM = $260 = 160 GBP by my reckoning for the lot, and those
- are still nearly 6 years out of date (OS 2.0) if I remember correctly.
- Then you also need to buy the Guru Book to get DOS documentation. How
- many of us younger (<20) Amiga users can afford this documentation? It is
- enough of a struggle to scrape together the money for the computer in the
- first place; following which the various expansins (memory, HD, ROM, ...)
- take up a lot of money each year. So I do not have these manuals. Instead
- I rely on Freeware documentation (e.g. the RKRM companions - very
- useful), the comments in include files, reverse engineering, other
- people's code. If I could get hold of official documentation for free, I
- would be reluctant to turn it down. What is the point in withholding the
- information which could ensure a higher standard of Amiga freeware?
-
- Ben.
-
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- Ben Hutchings, student. Finger me on worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk for various info.
- email: benjamin.hutchings@worc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/
- Users of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your Micro$oft software
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