vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) (02/09/90)
I just pulled MIT-Scheme Release 7 off of gatekeeper and was disappointed to discover that the accompanied manual has several large gaps, namely large(?) chunks of sections 8 (OS Features), 9 (Syntax Transducers), 10 (User Interface) and all of section 11 (Debugging Tools). My question is basicly "What's Up?", to which I see a number of possible answers: 1) "Its public domain software and you shuld be grateful for any manual at all." (and I am, don't get me wrong) 2) "You obvious don't know TeX from a hole in the Sendmail, try printing it the _right_ way." (hints?) 3) "These sections weren't written a first but are now available from blah." and 4) "These sections aren't written yet, but will be Real Soon Now" Call now! [$2.00 plus toll if any] James S. Vera | Internet |Standard Disclaimers Stanford University|vera@fanaraaken.stanford.edu|Blah Blah Blah Blah Bellcore |vera2@rigel.cc.bellcore.com |vvv My Cutesy Quote vvv "When I was young it seemed that life was so wonderful..." - Supertramp
cph@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (Chris Hanson) (02/10/90)
Date: 9 Feb 90 05:16:59 GMT From: "James S. Vera" <shelby!vera%fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU@decwrl.dec.com> I just pulled MIT-Scheme Release 7 off of gatekeeper and was disappointed to discover that the accompanied manual has several large gaps, namely large(?) chunks of sections 8 (OS Features), 9 (Syntax Transducers), 10 (User Interface) and all of section 11 (Debugging Tools). My question is basicly "What's Up?", to which I see a number of possible answers: 4) "These sections aren't written yet, but will be Real Soon Now" This is the correct answer, for some value of RSN. I created those sections of the manual when I was working on it as an outline for what remained to be done, but then I ran out of steam long before the thing was finished. I don't expect to resume writing that manual any time soon.