RE: DDJ Crypto CD has arrived!

Pete Klammer (pklammer@racom.com)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:51:42 -0700

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Got mine today (25-Feb).

I'm disappointed in the Hypertext reader indexing provided.
Example: Find 'safer' -- found 71 hits; click on one gets to the text
fairly quickly... but wait a minute, what text? I can't tell what text
I'm in!

My first click on "Contents" from the "Forward" page GPF'd in HRW.EXE
(at 0022:00000114).

Oh, and "Help" is a joke: one diagram, labeling all the buttons, which
doesn't fit in the non-expandable non-scrollable window it's displayed
in.

Maybe I can show you:
 

"Help | Index" and "Help | Contents" both bring me to this same page;
the only thing clickable here is "Exit".

Some of the text is badly scanned /OCR'ed (example: something like
"talk" scanned in as "talL;", but when I just now went to get an example
to show you, I got another GPF in HRW.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kriston@ibm.net [SMTP:kriston@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 1998 10:15 PM
> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: DDJ Crypto CD has arrived!
>
> Peter Trei writes:
> >Well, it's finally here.
> [...]
>
> That is great news! I wanted the CDROM to update my copy of Schneier,
> get the new source code for Schneier, and to get the old Cryptobytes
> and the older books, some of which seem to only be available in
> hardcover the last time I browsed through CL Books in Vienna, VA.
>
> Unfortunately, I ordered the Crypto CD and the Dr. Dobb's 9.5-year CD
> upgrade months before they sent the letter about the new discount
> schedule. The magazine CD was the same price in the new fee schedule
> but you can save $10 on the Crypto CD if you've bought from the
> catalog before.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Kris
>
> PS...Don't bother with the "Alternative Programming Languages" CD-ROM.
> You're just going to waste $45 on a CD-ROM copy of various outdated
> FTP archives with almost no supporting manuscript... so if you thought
> you'd get interesting articles about orphaned programming languages
> like Eiffel or Oberon, you'll be very disappointed with "Alternative
> Programming Languages." You're lucky to even have the online manuals
> for most of them.
>
> --
> Kriston J. Rehberg
> ICQ: 3535970 http://kriston.net/
> AOL: Kriston

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