Re: Living with ADB -A How To guide

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 19:45

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In article <dillon.0q9u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>In article <1992Oct27.101427.3287@ifi.unizh.ch> roettig@ifi.unizh.ch (Thomas Roettig) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct26.200608.8784@next.cambridge.ma.us>
>>...

    Ouch, maybe I should start using a spell checker after all.. let me
    repost that one.....

    ------

    A similar situation occured with me.

    I don't mind paying for developer material but getting nickel and dimed
    for questions related to deficiencies in THEIR documentation is
    unacceptable.  Just about all the documentation is too shallow to be of
    any real use.  They spend one paragraph explaining a particular method
    but do not explain side effects or call ordering requirements, the
    arguments to a particular method get all of one line, if that, in
    explanation, and they do not even supply a compilable example showing
    proper usage.  Totally useless.

    If they intend to charge me for every question I have that is unrelated
    to any particular bug report then maybe I should stop bothering to send
    them bug reports... or perhaps I should start charging *them* for each
    bug report I put together!

				   -Matt
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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
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Subject: Re:   Living with ADB -A How To guide
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Date: 28 Oct 92 11:45:02 PST
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