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From: ac4@pucc-h (Tom Putnam)
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Subject: Re: Basic 2.1 documentation problem
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 16:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 16:29:08 1984
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Depending upon which version of DOS and BASIC you had previously,
you may not want the update information for the BASIC manual.
I bought my PC many moons ago with DOS 1.0 and basic BASIC!
Some time later, I acquired DOS 1.1 along with an update for
my BASIC manual.  So far, so good.

I skipped 2.0 ... I figured 2.1 would follow before I would get
around to really using any of the new stuff.  No problem there.
When I finally acquired 2.1, there was the form telling me that
I could update my BASIC 1.1 manual to reflect the new features
in BASIC 2.1.  I noticed when I went to send it in that they
seemed to be very fussy about the update being for BASIC 1.1 and
not for any other version.  When I finally received the package,
I discovered why:

	(BASIC 1.0) + (Update to 1.1) != (BASIC 1.1)

Somewhere along the line, they started printing a manual for
BASIC 1.1 which has quite a few differences from the manual you
get by updating your 1.0 manual to 1.1.  If you try to apply the
1.1 -> 2.1 update, you get in lots of trouble with page numbers
and contents that do not match.  I finally gave up ... fortunately,
I hardly ever use BASIC myself ... I just wanted my manual to be up
to date in case a consulting question came up.

By the way, as far as I can tell, there is no BASIC 2.0 or BASIC 2.1
manual ... yet!  There is just an update to BASIC 1.1 which is
apparently applicable to both 2.0 and 2.1.
-- 
Tom Putnam
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