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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:26:18 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- In <725718966marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de> marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) writes:
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- >In article <1hq4dbINNsvs@cae.cad.gatech.edu> chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:
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- >>I would like to know all the capabilities of the system without having
- >>to order Redbooks. Hell, DOS came with a manual. I know OS/2 would
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- > Perhaps IBM should at least put the Redbooks as Online documentation
- >into the base package or split the base package into two packages:
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- > a) one as usual (but with the Redbooks online, with means at least two
- > additinal discs, which increases the price again .. :-( )
- > b) one with extra printed manuals and therefore much more expensive ... ?
-
- Either one. Like I said, people should be able to read about what
- the OS can provide for them, without having to hunt down obscure
- part codes, etc. Unix, for instance, comes with manauls (quite a few),
- andmost of the variants have separate volumes for each facet: file system
- services, memory services, network services, etc, so a programmer,
- or whatever, can read about what the system can provide them. When
- a programmer reads it, he/she can code an app (more than likely) which
- can take advantage of the system. When all you do is give out instructions
- on how to work the mouse, and what some of the utilities are,
- would be OS/2 programmers cant write anything. If they get a PD compiler
- (such as emx), with no manual, all they can do, is write Dos programs,
- that are OS2 execuatbles, if that.
-
- That is one major reason I think IBM should give out the redbooks with
- OS2 in some form without making it complicated in any way to get them,
- so people who may want to develop OS/2 don't have to spend lots of time
- looking for books that will tell them about what OS2 can do, from
- maybe a technical viewpoint, and one for the typical user as well.
-
- The online documentation they have NOW is not even sufficient. They need
- to document ALL the files, etc, and what they do, even the DLLs, and
- the .SYS files, so you can remove excess baggage, or add features
- to your system as time progresses.
-
- Also, it keeps us from posting simple questions and getting obscure answers
- that cannot be found in what little OS2 documentation we got.
-
-