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Article #471Re: What manuals?
From: Jack A. Zucker
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 17:09
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 17:09
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It's typical of Microsoft. We bought their MS-DOS adaptation kit. The documentation was terrible, and all in readme files. The kit was beaucoup bucks. If you wanted support for the package, it was $10,000.00. The explanation for creating a boot sector and bootable disk was laughable, and the sample code didn't work. There were files missing from the disk so the "Make" procedure failed. Microsoft's own make program is so pitiful that they supplied a custom "imake.exe" which is an unreleased product. The BASIC adaptation does not allow you to add new key words to the language. Constants were supplied for things like MAX_SCREEN_LINES, but we found that many routines had the number 25 hardcoded anyway. In other words, junk. -jaz
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