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- From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Commodity question
- Summary: Docs not perfect
- Keywords: manuals documentation 2.04
- Message-ID: <38416@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:26:57 GMT
- References: <38291@cbmvax.commodore.com> <wanderer.03pd@tcsi.appleton.mil.wi.us> <crystal.726437518@glia> <1993Jan7.222820.13563@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- In article <1993Jan7.222820.13563@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
- >crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
- >
- >[Someone 's name deleted here ... sorry]
-
- [comments from Rick and Crystal on virtues/failings of _Using the System
- Software_ manual deleted]
-
- My responses to this are covered in a prior response, basically saying that
- there indeed seem to have been some gaps in the _UtSS_ index.
-
- >i.e. Someone who was not Crystal wrote:
- >>I found Enforcer on my HD, and I *know* I didn't put it there, and I couldn't
- >>find a reference in the 2.04 manual for it, so I got bugged enough to run a
- >>VIRUS CHECKER on the mysterious thing. It was clean...but *geez* if a program
- >>is considered important enough to put in with the system software, at least
- >>DOCUMENT it!
- >
- >It's for systems with MMU's (normally 68030's and up). They shoudl have still
- >supplied *some* sort of docs, though.
-
- Similarly, my previous response indicated that in general, stuff that is
- undocumented should be left alone. It's unlikely you'll get a virus on an
- original disk from Commodore.
-
- >The docs with 2.04 were *quite* good. Made much more sense than a lot of
- >others I read.
-
- Thanks!
-
- > You want lousy docs take a look at previous Workbench
- >releases (1.2 / 1.3). *Those* were lousy docs!
-
- There seems to be general agreement on this :-)
-
- [...]
-
- >+ Rick __ + EMAIL:charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu + //\ + /|\ It's +
- >| /aylor | IRC : Tomalek / The Romulan | \X/--\miga 500 | J rainy |
-
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