RE: API documentation

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think "down and dirty" = "Undocumented OS/400."  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Guthrie [mailto:GaryGuthrie@home.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:04 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: API documentation
> 
> 
> Greetings Andrew,
> 
> What, precisely, do you have in mind as "down and dirty" APIs?
> 
> My goal in an "APIs by Example" book would be to write about API
> concepts as well as much practical information such as uses for APIs,
> justification for APIs, and numerous USEFUL functioning 
> service programs
> encapsulating the APIs. So, you can learn how to use them and not need
> to!
> 
> 
> Gary Guthrie
> NEWS/400 Technical Editor
> 
> 
> Andrew Borts wrote:
> > 
> > Gary - will the down and dirty API's be covered?  I mean 
> the ones IBM keeps
> > behind closed doors because they don't trust people like 
> lil' ol' me...
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