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From: rob@NRC.COM (Rob Pawsner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: SuperCard complaints/questions
Message-ID: <356@nrcvax.NRC.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 22:44:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM's message of 25 Sep 89 03:01:18 GMT

I second the motion. The SuperCard manuals are nicely designed, well-
meaning, and notably inadequate. My copy of SuperCard included a flyer
for a third-party Goodmanesque paperback; as I recall, there was a
blurb from the president of Silicon Beach calling it indispensable.

When I buy a retail-market proprietary language product (not some
unsupported APDA tool), I expect to get a 100% complete REFERENCE
manual. If the vendor wants to throw in a TUTORIAL manual, or arrange
for an outside, extra-cost publication, that's fine; but it's a
separate issue.

Of course, finding the people, time, and resources to do a good job is
a tough problem, as I can testify firsthand. As you've probably
noticed, Apple's own software manuals are still beautifully designed,
but their contents have become disorganized and incomplete. But that's
another topic for another news group...