Received from Richard R. Pope at 07/03/2014 08:21  Thursday UTC:

>James,
>My book is the second edition and it has the pocket at the back of the boo=
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>for the CD. I'm downloading from the link that you sent to me.  I believe=
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>that since I have the book I have a right to the CD.


I thought the same thing back in 2005 when I bought the book.

I also have the 2nd edition.  Not even an empty  CD pocket in mine.  Got th=
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circuit board, but no CD.  McGraw Hill eventually told me, after they had=20
stalled me with promising noises until the Amazon 30-day return policy had=
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expired, that "McGraw-Hill made an internal decision to no longer supply th=
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CD with recent printings of the book."  They did this without notifying the=
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resellers so the book description could be changed, and without changing th=
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Limited Warranty in the back of the book itself.  That warranty mentions a=
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defective CD, but in their minds didn't cover a missing CD.

No refund from Amazon, despite having the book only 2 weeks because their=20
warranty (at least at the time) began at time of sale, never mind they took=
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two weeks to ship.  No refund from McGraw-Hill just because they could get=
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away with not giving one.

I was given a link to the author's web site where rather than a ZIP I could=
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download and unzip, I found (as best I can recall) some individual files th=
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seemed to apply to everything in the book in general, then a lot more files=
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in separate directories broken down by project.  I downloaded everything,=20
maintaining the relative file structure and directory names, but none of it=
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would work together.  I also found file names in some images describing fil=
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installation that weren't among the files available for download.  As I=20
recall I was unable to contact author Predko.

Hope you have better luck.

If someone wants my book, with unused circuit board, and is willing to pay=
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shipping, 4 lbs plus weight of packaging, contact me off list.  I have no u=
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for it.

Jim H



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