Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ac4 From: ac4@pucc-h (Tom Putnam) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Basic 2.1 documentation problem Message-ID: <1250@pucc-h> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 16:29:08 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1250 Posted: Mon Sep 24 16:29:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:58:07 EDT References: <453@ittral.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 31 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 {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:ac4