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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...
> From mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
> [...]
>
> The main concern I have, though, is with errors in the text. Specific
> examples (just in case you do not yet know about them):
>
> 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.
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...?
> 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?
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.
> especially in the "revision". Nobody is perfect, and typing mistakes
> can be made, but not in a professionally produced text.
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.
Obviously we would all like some easy/cheap way to get addenda and errata.
(illegible signature) Bo Leuf
- Email: bo.leuf@daggskim.ct.se