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[Richard Kreiss]

I have the zenith Tandy manual in the brown binder. Also the combined 4.0, 4.1 and maybe some 3.... In the small blue binder. I do have the 4.5 supplement also. 

It is I retesting to look back at the programming in the Tandy manual as it predates the release of @w processing to outside developers.  

Richard
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On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:34 PM, "Mike Schwartz" <mschw at athenet.net> wrote:

>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:01:41PM -0400, Walter D Vaughan Jr thus spoke:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> end of the big, honkin' orange manual in a binder - arguably the
>>>> last comprehensive and well-organised documentation I ever saw for
>>>> the product.
>>> [Walter D Vaughan Jr]
>>> Dang, ORANGE?
>>> All I have are brown plastic Profile16 and blue cloth filePro16 binders.
>>> Though I do have a clear glass filePro candy jar nearby...
> 
>     I just looked and I have my filePro 1.0.0 manual dated December 1,1985.
> I was looking for my "0.95" manual dated sometime in 1984, which was the
> typewritten and then photocopied manual for the first Tandy model 16 Xenix
> release of filepro.  Marve Wyman and I at American Can were heavily into
> "Profile" and "mathpack", so we were given the opportunity to be one of the
> beta testers for the new Xenix version. 
> 
>     Unfortunately, I may have thrown that out a year or two ago when I went
> through some heavy-duty housecleaning...
> 
>      I still have all the other manuals (orange, blue, black) although I've
> loaned some of them out to people who wanted some sort of paper manual.
> 
>      In 2005 I contracted out to a company who had about a half-dozen
> filepro programmers working there already.  They were unaware that there was
> a filePro manual.  They were also unaware that Stuart Werner at STN had
> written any filePro text books, or that this email list existed.  
> 
>     The company parted ways with its former development team on unfriendly
> terms, and I asked this new group of programmers how they had managed to
> learn filePro.  They showed me a version 4.5 "new commands" supplement that
> they passed around amongst themselves, and had found the "help" keys, so
> they taught themselves all they knew about filePro from those 2 items.
> They were shocked that when I showed them that there was a real filePro
> manual!    
> 
> Mike Schwartz   
> 
> 
> 
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