huver@amgraf.UUCP (Huver) (03/12/89)
First, someone was confused about the SHORTS used in the library functions vs. how "short" is treated by a compiler (the Manx ideology): these functions take argument values directly from registers, not the stack. Hence, it makes no difference whether you pass long, short or "int" arguments to DOS functions (to your own functions, it's a different matter). The library functions say SHORT to tell you that they only use the low 16-bit part of a passed argument value. It is NOT a doucmentation error. Now, don't mean to flame anyone, but... Who's idea is it to print Autodocs/ Includes reduced and sideways, while intros and the EA '85 IFF reprint appear upright? Why readers MUST be tortured to provide large enough desk space to keep the manual lay flat, or hold the other half high in the air by hand while reading in other context (say sitting back in the chair to actually STUDY what's said about particular subjects)? Why the Autodocs/Includes & IFF volume couldn't be printed in small size 3-ring binder format? If that causes the volume to be overly thick, making IFF a volume by itself wouldn't be a bad idea -- should help push the concept of IFF being a machine indepent thing (it's rather silly to tell the boys/girls in the Mac support division to read up IFF in an Amiga manual). Speaking of which, is there an IFF disk (or maybe two) equivalent of what Carolyn wrote that got printed in this RKM? Anyone knows? ----- -huver uunet!amgraf!huver
bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) (03/15/89)
In article <228@amgraf.UUCP| huver@amgraf.UUCP (Huver) writes: | |Making IFF a volume by itself wouldn't be a bad idea -- should help push |the concept of IFF being a machine indepent thing (it's rather silly to |tell the boys/girls in the Mac support division to read up IFF in an |Amiga manual). There is an IFF manual and disk sold by Commodore-Amiga Technical Support (CATS). Price: $20. The catalog was posted here recently. -- |\_/| . ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH! {O o} . Bryce Nesbitt, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. (") BIX: bnesbitt U USENET: cbmvax!bryce@uunet.uu.NET -or- rutgers!cbmvax!bryce Lawyers: America's untapped export market.