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Redistributing HP manuals Message #1 Posted by Thomas Okken on 6 July 2005, 10:43 a.m. I would like to create an HTML version of the HP-42S manual, to distribute with Free42. Does anyone know what HP's position would be on something like that? I gather HP has no problem with Dave Hicks selling copies of their manuals on CD, but to use their documentation with what could be viewed as a competing product might be a different matter. Who could I contact within HP to request permission? Any insights would be welcome! - Thomas

A suggestion (was: Redistributing HP manuals) Message #2 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 7 July 2005, 12:26 a.m., in response to message #1 by Thomas Okken Hi, Thomas; if you accept my suggestion and if you are willing to go ahead with it, consider a quick reference guide or a brief guide, based on the original manual, where you explain each possible function in brief with som examples. There is no problem writing books about HP calculators, and I see no problem writing an on-line brief guide as well, just avoid copying the original text. There is already an index with references to all available operations/functions in the HP42S manual. You could start there, groupping commands/functions on areas, for example. Success! Luiz (Brazil)

Re: A suggestion (was: Redistributing HP manuals) Message #3 Posted by Thomas Okken on 8 July 2005, 8:39 a.m., in response to message #2 by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) Hmm, yes, maybe I should just write a complete manual from scratch... I could even sell it to all those people who bought an expensive HP-42S with no manual on eBay. :-D

Re: A suggestion (was: Redistributing HP manuals) Message #4 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 8 July 2005, 11:06 a.m., in response to message #3 by Thomas Okken Ssshhh... Not so loud... Others may hear you and go ahead selling photocopies for $(x100)

Re: A suggestion (was: Redistributing HP manuals) Message #5 Posted by Namir on 8 July 2005, 5:33 p.m., in response to message #3 by Thomas Okken Tom, As a technical writer (and also programming book author) maybe I can help. We can do this in several ways. I can do the editing, write examples, writer a certain part. I love the 42s AND your software. Namir

Re: A suggestion (was: Redistributing HP manuals) Message #6 Posted by Thomas Okken on 12 July 2005, 6:56 p.m., in response to message #5 by Namir Thanks for the offer, Namir! I'll have to think about this a bit.

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