ferguson@BKNLVMS.BITNET (02/24/88)
Why isn't the GPR_$MAKE_BITMAP_FROM_ARRAY call documented? It's in the insert file, where us mindless users are allowed to get to it, but are we supposed to get the full spectrum of GPR only by reading the insert file? (The PASCAL insert file, to be exact, since C and FTN insert files don't list data types and function parameters) How many other calls that I could really use are not documented but available? Scott Ferguson ferguson@bknlvms.bitnet Bucknell University
krowitz@mit-richter.UUCP (David Krowitz) (02/24/88)
Actually, I think the only way to keep the system documentation up to date is to periodically order a complete set of new manuals. With all the revisions, change pages, and release notes that come out there's no way we can keep our documentation sets up to date and consistant. We have GPR books on the shelf that are rev 2.0 and rev 1.0 books that are still in the original wrappers. Are there update pages for the 1.0 books? Who knows! And to top it off, the release notes for every single incremental release of AEGIS say 'change page ... to read ...' and then give a page or two of revisions that you're supposed to write in the margins. There's got to be a better way ... I just don't know what it is. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu mit-erl!mit-richter!krowitz@eddie.mit.edu mit-erl!mit-richter!krowitz@mit-eddie.arpa krowitz@mit-mc.arpa (in order of decreasing preference)