Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: mgarcia Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Manual versions Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:45:53 +1000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-214-106-135.dyn.iinet.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Hi Philippe, Whao this old place is still going! Ahh I like books so I used to use the books.... however I used the pdf's to do searches.... I don't know which is the latest one... i would assume the pdf version is newer. anyway I hear the ps3 will be ps1 compatable too ;) all the best to everyone here !!!! Mike Philippe Lorin wrote: > Due to lack of space, I'm considering storing away my paper manuals. So > I downloaded the manuals at: > http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/yaroze/docs/main.htm > > Unfortunately, there are some weird inconsistencies between the pdf and > the paper version. And I cannot decide which version is better. The > dates tell us nothing, as both versions include the mention "Published > February 1997" (the pdf version has as meta-data: "Beta Release 1.1 - > Apr 97", but there is no such meta-data available for the paper version > of course). > > The description of the files on the download page says the pdf manuals > are "updated". However, there are errors in them that do not appear in > the paper version. Example: > GsSPRITE: > pdf, page 40: "g,b Display brightness for r, g, and b (normal > brightness is 128)" (note how "r" is missing) > paper, page 33: "r,g,b Brightness is set for each of r, g and b when > they are displayed (Original brightness when it is 128)" > I can't see how such errors would have been introduced. > > If it were for minor mistakes that you could correct without thought, I > wouldn't worry, but sometimes it's more important stuff: > GsCOORDINATE2 > paper, page 23: there is a field named "sub" which is not present in the > pdf version (page 20). OK, it's "unused", but it still adds to the size > of the struct. > > It's not easy to compare both versions thoroughly, because they do not > have the same order. Maybe I'm worried about nothing; I hope so. > > So, which version is more reliable? Can I forget about the paper > version, or should I keep it at hand for double-checking in case of > trouble?