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In article <DEVEN.89Mar30052014@daniel.pawl.rpi.edu>, deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes:
> 
> >        Page 1-64, White 1.1 RKMs: Partial blocks may be deallocated,
> >but note again that FreeMem() rounds your address down to the nearest
> >even multiple of MEM_BLOCKSIZE and the size up to the nearest multiple
> >before the FreeMem() request is performed.
> 
> Ah...  there's the discrepency.  You have a different manual than I.
> Time to be specific [and verbose] I suppose:
> 
> Amiga ROM Kernal Reference Manual: Exec
> 
> Authors: Carl Sassenrath, Rob Peck, and Susan Deyl
> Program examples by Carl Sassenrath
> 
> Now...  what is the most concise, yet unambiguous way to refer to this
> version of the RKM: Exec Manual?
> 
> There is no page "1-64"...  and page "64" is the blank page between
> Chapter 5, Interrupts, and Chapter 6, Memory Allocation.  Clearly it
> is a different version.  I believe it is V1.1, but perhaps not.

There are actually 3 versions of the RKM's floating around (soon to be
4 when the full 1.3 version comes out.  The first one was "1.0" and I
wrote the entire EXEC portion.  The second one is for 1.1, and it was
bound entirely in white.  The third one is with a nice Addison Wesley
cover, handles 1.2, and has the Green or Plum or Yellow stripe on the
cover.

As updates were made, wording got changed, chapters got moved and/or
replaced.  Some useful information, such as the above, mighta gotten
picked up and moved or picked up and deleted by one of the editors
who sincerely believed that certain material was either covered elsewhere
or he/she INTENDED to move it elsewhere.  C'est la vie.  It happens.

From what I have seen of the Autodoc portion of the 1.3 RKM, and the
amount of work that Bryce has put into it, I'd have to say that the
1.3 RKM, as a bunch, will doubtless be the best of the bunch, most
useful and so on.  I'll gladly push the old versions to the back of
the bookshelf in favor of using the new set when it becomes available.

Rob Peck