vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (01/16/86)
Yesterday, my friendly local postman delivered a very solid package from my friendly local publisher: Addison-Wesley has published the hardcover edition of Inside Mac. Three "volumes" inside one set of covers, plus an index. The pages are numbered consecutively within volumes, not by chapters like the phone book edition. I haven't added them up exactly, but the total is well over 1000. The numbering by volume makes the index much more useful, as it's easier to locate a several-hundred-page volume than a several-dozen-page chapter. The contents of the book are obsolete in spots, of course, but more current than the phone book + May supplement. It came with ordering information for the Software Supplement ($75) and the December Software Supplement Additions ($25). (The book itself lists for $79.95.) The major area of obsolescence is HFS, which was still in development as the book was being put together. The File Manager chapter is more recent than in the phone book, but doesn't mention HFS. For example, the bits in fdFlags are now correctly numbered as members of the high byte of a word instead of as members of a byte. But, the "file location valid" bit (bit 9) still isn't mentioned. Material which was new in the May Supplement, such as the hardware chapter, is included. Anyone care for a well-thumbed copy of the phone book edition, cheap? -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay