       INTRODUCTION TO MISPRINTS IN THE EXECUTIVE MANUALS

                          Alex. F. Burr
                         2025 O'Donnell
                      Las Cruces, NM 88001

     This file contains an introduction to the Personal Pearl 
files and their use to print a list of the misprints, errors, and 
their corrections to the manuals furnished with the Osborne 
Executive Computer.  This introductory file appears in two forms, 
a Wordstar document and a Wordstar non-document form.  A list of 
all the files on this disc, complete with a few words of 
description, is given in the file DISK.DOC.
     There are over 220 separate records of misprints.  These 
records fill 17 closely printed pages when listed by Personal 
Pearl and about 35 pages when output in a wordprocessor file.
This disk contains over 90k bytes of data.

TO PRODUCE A REPORT

     To produce a hard copy list of all the corrections follow 
these steps:
          1.  Place the Personal Pearl Produce Reports disk in 
               drive A.
          2.  Place this data disk in drive B.
          3.  Type PEARLPR <cr>
          4.  Press <cr>, and enter for form name OSEXMP.  For 
               report name enter EXMISPR.
          5.  Select step 3  Final Report.
Personal Pearl may call for a sort.  In any case just follow the 
prompts and a printed report will result.
     The file EXMISPR.DOC contains a disk variety of this report.  
It can be TYPEd or accessed from Wordstar or another 
wordprocessor.
     After you have the basic report, you may want to select some 
of the other report options.  Option 1 will allow you to get a 
report of the misprints from only certain of the manuals or to 
look at only those errors called serious.
     Option 2 allows you to change the way in which the report 
appears on paper.  It is presently set for 58 lines per page and 
for the use of an automatic form feed.  If you do not have a 
sheet feeder or if you want bigger top and bottom margins, you 
may want to change these values.
     If you add your own additional error finds, you certainly 
will want to change the date given in the heading.  This change 
can be made from Option 2.
     

INTERPRETING THE REPORT

     The biggest difficulty is finding the location the misprint 
in the page on which it occurred.  The following table will 
detail the conventions used in locating the volume in which the 
error was found.
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VOLUME    DESCRIPTION
     0    Beginner's Guide
     1    Mastering the Osborne Executive
     2    Working with Text and Spreadsheets
    (3)   Managing Information with Personal Pearl contains three 
               individually numbered volumes so they are numbered 
               differently.  See 31,32,33 
     4    Operating Systems
     5    Executive Reference Guide  (the loose leaf book)
    31    The first, elementary, volume in Volume 3 Managing 
               Information with Personal Pearl
    32    The second, advanced, volume in Volume 3
    33    The reference volume in Volume 3
    78    Errors in the errata sheets
    88    Continuation records from lower numbered overflowing 
               records.  Two way cross references are given.

These volume numbers appear in the first three spaces of the 
location number in the records printed out.  Note that leading 
zeros are not printed.
     The last three spaces in the location number represents the 
line on which the error is found.  For consistency, a line is 
counted if and only if there is printing on it someplace on the 
page.  This means that the upper and lower boarders of boxes 
count as a printed line.  The decorative line at the top of many 
pages counts as a printed line.  Any unprinted line does not 
count.
     Whether or not to call an error serious was a matter of 
judgement not always consistently rendered.  In particular, the 
use of the incorrect term "baud rate" instead of the correct 
"data rate" was always flagged but only sometimes called serious.


ADDING MISPRINTS

     It is not to be expected that this disk contains all the 
misprints or errors.  If you find more they can be added to the 
data base by:
          1.  Place the Personal Pearl ENTER DATA disk in drive 
               A.
          2.  Place this data disk in drive B.
          3.  Type PEARLED <cr>.
          4.  Press <cr> and enter OSEXMP as the requested form 
               name.
          5.  Fill in the information requested.

     I would appreciate it if you would send a list of all the 
misprints which you find which do not appear on this disk to me 
at the address given at the beginning of this file.
