Plea to sell Dan's book widely

[Bob Warren]

Dear List members,

I have just posted the following to Kevin:

What some people are saying on the List at this moment confirms what I
pointed out in my notes: Windows programmers (about 90% of the market?) can
easily be scared away by the MAC dominance of RunRev and its community/
lieutenants. All my notes really called for (technically) was what I have
been used to in VB for many years, a standard which is different (and higher
in some respects) than the MAC-oriented one emanating from RunRev.

One such standard in comparison with VB was the availability of a
Programmer's Transcript/IDE Reference Manual (1) and a Programmer's RunRev
Guide (2), supplied at no extra cost with the IDE in order to form a
complete product (implying that anything less represents an incomplete
product).

Now what I see on the List is a discussion of what can be done with Dan and
his books!

These are my suggestions (bearing in mind of course that I know absolutely
nothing of RunRev's finances, but you do not seem to be doing too badly):

1) This obviously very able author should not be frustrated or (heaven
forbid) be allowed to slip through RunRev's fingers!

2) Pay the man generously to do the crucial job of completing the RunRev
product with the Guide (2 above) in 3 volumes.

I would also like to see this Guide (a) available first in HTML form on the
Internet; (b) available in CHM form (another Windows standard) for free
download, not only by Rev clients but also by Rev PROSPECTIVE clients.

For notes on how to Make the CHM format available to MAC and Unix/Linux
users, please go to http://xchm.sourceforge.net/index.html . It's not
perfectly straightforward, but I am sure your programmers could
work it out.

None of this precludes the practice (later) of making the hard copies
available at extra cost.