Re: whoever has IV on ebay

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

The manuals are important. I consult them about twice a
week. Seriously. So I don't at all disparage Adam's selling the whole
package.


It's probably true that you can get
the software off the web for free.

 

But what you can't download is the firmly bound manuals (which are
pristine, by the way, not even creased because I never used them) which
include the very chunky Command Reference Guide (a few hundred pages), a
thick Customisation Guide and a smaller manual dealing specifically with
differences between 3 and 4 (and two other manuals as well!).

 

Yes, OK, I suppose you can probably download an e-version of these
somewhere, and even print them out, but it's not the same, is it?

 

If you want the books, you gotta buy the box.

 

(Hard sell over. Thanks for listening.)

 

adam

 

> I think Xy4 can be picked up off the web for free. I don't

> know the copyright status. It's ambiguous.

>

>> I

>> can't find the blasted post/thread from the gentleman in
Australia

>> selling the IV package...

>>

> ...in any case, if you see this, I wish to buy it - now that I

>> understand, thanks to Harry and others, that IV is just fine,
even better

>> than III. I would prefer not to pay the $60 shipping from
Australia, but

>> I remember you saying you might be able to bring it to the U.S.
to then

>> send it.

>>

> I will bid on it on ebay if I have to, but I'm concerned that if I
do

>> that, I might get locked into the shipping price stated
there.

>>

> Please feel free to PM me or answer me on the list; your choice.
I'm, of

>> course, hoping to avoid a bidding war, but I'm kinda assuming
there won't

>> be very many crazies like me who would like the whole package as
it was

>> originally (this will probably be the third time I have bought
IV, and

>> that's not even counting twice for NB and at least once for
III....that's

>> what happens when you move all over the place, and then entrust
your old

>> PC to a small-town computer shop which promptly
"loses" your

>> hard-drive; stuff keeps getting lost that you think you'll never
use

>> again...)

>>

> Best, Charles in Arizona

>

> Harry Binswanger

> hb@xxxxxxxx




Harry Binswanger
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