[Coco] What other Manuals, etc. need to be converted?

[Dean Leiber]

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>I have long been willing to do most / all of the work, but I just do not see
>the level of use that balances the amount of work needed.
>
Well, that's probably true. I'm doing the manuals since I currently have 
time and maybe someone will find them useful. I tried archiving alot of 
stuff years ago (organizing, writing descriptions, even checking the 
binaries for corruption...alot of it is still on my MM/1, which is down 
at the moment) but its alot of work for one person. I'd like to see it 
done since I'd hate to see all this stuff disappear. The only way to get 
anything of this large a size done is to just do it a chunk at a time. 
Thats the way I'm approaching the manuals...just a manual a day is all we 
ask! ;-)

>RTSI files (Except OSK) already. And most / all?? of the other file sets
>that were available from time to time. I have a database program up to the
>task and many additional relevant files. Moving the files around is not too
>hard and I have a CD burner. A list of the new order is all that I need.
>
Well you're prepared! :-) Its the sorting out which takes alot of time. 
I'm willing to help but I'm a bit preoccupied with the manuals, etc. at 
the moment. The scanning is easy, its all the bookmarking and checking 
which takes forever. (I hate people who gave out xeroxed dot matrix 
printouts as manuals....they're almost impossible to scan in. Also a Pox 
on all those companies with odd ball size manuals.) 
 
>I also have the start of my prime beef with RTSI, the one liners and one
>page descriptions for Many of the Delphi files _and_ the CompuServe files

Well RTSI was originally just a convenient place to drop files from the 
various services so everyone could get access to them. There used to be, 
I think, 3 different OS-9 archives around at one time (lucy, wuarchive 
and ????) but they've all since disappeared. I always wonder if there was 
anything important on one which wasn't anywhere else. If it was, its gone 
now. RTSI used to be better organized until someone wiped out the archive 
that time. It looks like you have some of the descriptions, so not 
everything needs to be recreated.


>If we concentrate on just moving the files, "LHAing" up and uncompressing as
>needed then it is not too much work and would be best done by one person.
>The big part is deciding where each file needs to be.

Well, I'm willing to help with the organizing;Do you have some sort of 
list or something which I could edit, etc. to help categorize? Maybe I 
could do some of the descriptions or something...


Dean