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Article #587Re: The expensive IBM doc set
From: Andrew Gilbert
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:02
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:02
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dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: : In article <1992Jul29.154428.12738@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes: : >In article <1992Jul28.021436.2865@hellgate.utah.edu> brian%jensen.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes: : >>Why does IBM charge so much for the hardcopy manual set? : >Perhaps because it consists of 17 large volumes? : : Something that I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion (or I may have : missed it) is that you don't have to buy all 17 volumes. Each volume : has its own IBM publication number, so you can order them separately : (or so a Team OS/2 member tells me). : : Now, would someone who was rich enough to pay the $300 volunteer to : post the title and publication number (and maybe even a brief : description) of each volume in the set? Chances are, most of us will : only need a handful of volumes to get our job done. : If you have the redbooks, there are references to some volumes that will get you started. I just received Presentation Manager Programming Reference Vol I. today. There are three volumes in the set. Vol I contains API reference for GPI,etc type calls. Vol II contains window API calls, workplace things. Vol III contains data type info, messages, etc. There is also a OS/2 2.0 Programming Guide, which has a number of volumes. Call an IBM office, talk to the librarian and you are on your way. (Now everybody don't flood them with so many requests that there is a backlog by the time I can afford the next one....)
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