[Coco] Re: Speech and Sound cart manual
Richard E. Crislip
rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Wed Apr 14 22:01:21 EDT 2004
Hello tim
On 04/14/04, tim lindner wrote:
> <secure at ytunnelpro.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks people! I snagged it and dropped it into my pending folder. I'm
>> going to run it through some OCR and see if I can't get it reduced in
>> sized a little bit. Thankfully it was saved in lossless format so it'll
>> be tons easier.
>
> I have taken the liberty to OCR the manual and clean it up. My intent
> will be to re-typeset the manual and to redraw the few illustrations.
>
> But I would like to ask for help proof reading the text from the OCR
> program.
>
> Here is the current text file:
>
> http://home.netcom.com/~tlindner/Download/SSCManual.txt
>
> The file uses MS-DOS paragraph ending. I chose that since most people
> use Windows computers.
>
> Please note, there are no line breaks is this text file, just paragraph
> breaks. You need to use a text editor that can wrap paragraphs
> automatically. Please don't insert line breaks.
>
> If you want to help, just reply to this message and tell me which pages
> you'll check.
>
> Use the pages numbers from the orginal scans. (But note, the pages
> numbers have been removed from the text file.)
>
> One last thing:
>
> The text file reflects some corrections I made to the program listings.
> On all of the 'PEEK(X) AND Y = Z' type lines I changed them to '(PEEK(X)
> AND Y) = Z'. The corrects an order of operations bug throughout the
> program listings.
>
> And the last correction was made to the Demo program in appendix E. In
> line 3560 I changed the 'K=13' to 'K=17'. This error was found by Robert
> Gault.
I dowloaded the text you put up. Now if I need the real manual to proof
this, I can't help you. But if you are looking for obvious typos etc., I
can be of assistance.
Regards
--
Cruisen _|_
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Richard
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