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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: OS 3.0 Manuals
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.132343.22705@enea.se>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:23:43 GMT
- References: <37847@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- : Mats_Pettersson@p18.aiki.bbs.bad.se (Mats Pettersson) writes:
- : >Well! Since the Hardware manual doesn't seem to be released for OS 3.0, when
- : >and where does the other manuals (OS friendly) come out?? Or are they to be
- : >released at all?
- :
- : Manuals are always later than the hardware/software, since often
- : details aren't firm until release. Note that the 2.0 manuals came out shortly
- : after 2.04 (if I remember correctly). This also gives us time to make sure
- : bugs and workarounds are documented in the manuals. BTW, even if we were to
- : do a hardware manual it probably wouldn't be available for quite a few months.
- :
- : --
- : To be or not to be = 0xff
- : -
- : Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- : {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- : Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
-
- The only way to get good, actual manuals out shortly after program
- release would be to relese them on CD (or floppys) in AmigaGuide format.
- If this format is used during development, small corrections can be made when
- the bugs are found, and the CD's/floppies then made.
-
- If you look at Microsoft's manuals and compare them with the contents of
- the help files on floppy, they contain the same information, but the
- books are much more out-of-date and full of errors.
-
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- Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
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