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- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 00:21:00 +0200
- Message-Id: <2e36ede7@daggskim.ct.se>
- From: bo.leuf@daggskim.ct.se (Bo Leuf)
- Subject: Re: Compendium, and other...
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- Michel Forget wrote using postfix electrons on 25 Jul 94...
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- > From mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- > [...]
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- > The main concern I have, though, is with errors in the text. Specific
- > examples (just in case you do not yet know about them):
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- > Page v: Appendix I apparently begins on H.1 (?!)
- > Page 4.64: The word "multiple" is used in the second last paragraph
- > when it should actually be multiply.
- > Page 6.96: graf_movebox() is now called graf_mbox() by Atari (and
- > everyone else, apparently, though I did not know this until
- > it was pointed out to me).
- > Page 7.65: WORD maxwchar is listed twice. It should be maxwchar,
- > maxhchar.
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- Hm, I might point out that checking my stock of the Compendium shows no such
- errors, so evidently they have been corrected in later printings, or...?
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- > These are textual errors, but it makes me question what -other- errors
- > there might be. Is the code listed reliable? Are the suggested
- > parameters and other pieces of information correct?
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- There are _NO_ reference books that I have seen which have not had at least
- some typos or other errors. Even Motorola is supposed to have had major errors
- in its own documentation of 68030/68040 cpus.
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- > especially in the "revision". Nobody is perfect, and typing mistakes
- > can be made, but not in a professionally produced text.
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- Can and do. Happens all the time...
- Considering the scope of the Compendium and the "helpful" nature of Atari
- documentation to begin with, I at least rate the Compendium as a great effort,
- and successful.
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- Obviously we would all like some easy/cheap way to get addenda and errata.
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- (illegible signature) Bo Leuf
- - Email: bo.leuf@daggskim.ct.se
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