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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Multiview/AG bug (Was: Re: Amiga "C Manual")
- Date: 13 Mar 96 10:54:53 +0000
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- Hi, Jeremy Nixon , on 12-Mar-96 12:24:35 you scribbled....
- >Apparently the author of C-Manual 4 didn't actually do any proofreading. I
- >thought it was only two, but here's the list of files in the CM4 package
- >which will crash AmigaGuide:
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- >Contents.guide
- >Miscellaneous.guide
- > --crash on the "main" node
- >Handlers.guide
- >AdvancedRoutines.guide
- >BufferedIO.guide
- >FileFunctions.guide
- >Files.guide
- >ParsingCommandLine.guide
- > --crash on secondary internal nodes
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- >Honestly, I'm sure the author of this work knows fifty times more than I
- >about C programming. But when you ask people to pay fifty dollars for
- >something like this, it had better be perfect. And crashing AmigaGuide
- >because of sloppy coding is *not* acceptable. If a program had this many
- >bugs, causing it to crash on this many different features, it could barely
- >be described as an alpha.
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- I think part of a tutuorial in Amigaguide programming ;))
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- Stop whinging and be thankful c-manual exists...
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- >And let's not even get into the fact that this is *documentation* that
- >requires no less than 13 assigns and 2 aliases. And we won't even talk
- >about how it wastes scads of disk space by duplicating every example
- >program as a plain text listing and and AmigaGuide document, even though
- >there aren't any links or other AG commands in them--the only thing that
- >makes them AmigaGuide documents is the @database, @node, and @endnode
- >commands in them. AmigaGuide *can* link to plain text files.
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- >Fifty dollars?
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- ..and people wonder why John Velduis(sp) stopped development....
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- Mike
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