At 12:19 AM 1/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Which brings me back to my old plea of, could we have a printed
>1.8c manual, please?  A good one, with a good index please.  And
>for "good index" please do not use the indices in most computer
>manuals as a guide for a good index as all the ones I have seen
>are abysmal.
 
I don't get it.   Are you finding the 1.8c manuals, in a variety of
formats, including Word, ascii, and others, available on the lsoft web site
to be inadequate?  You can printem and bindem and have a really firstclass
resource.
 
 
>I've said all this many times before, and I'm going to continue saying
>it.  I want a good printed manual (loseleaf notebook style for ease of
>installing updates would be fine) and I am willing to pay for it,
>as long as there is a good index (see Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books
>for examples of good indices).
 
The index isn't bad, though may not meet your standards, I suppose.  I'd
not bother with looseleaf nonsense, since the world is way past that.  When
a new revision comes out, I'll just download it, dump it to my LaserJet,
and get it bound again.  Paper is  a couple bucks.  The binding about a
buck.  Not worth my time to do change pages.
 
cheers
 
dan
 
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