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Cc: "Christopher T. Lansdown" <lansdoct@screech.cs.alfred.edu>
Subject: Re: Hi - need some help? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 13:04:19 EST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:11:13 -0500
From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901071303140.28436-100000@screech.cs.alfred.edu>you 
write:
>You said that the documents for the yamaha board could only be gotten in
>japanese.  Would they be willing to release those?  I'm sure that there
>are some linux using japanese people who are technical enough to provide
>the necessary translation, or at least answer questions based onthe
>documentation and translate the key parts.

No, you didn't quite hear this right. There *are* no documents. The
information, they say, is all in the head of a small number of
japanese engineers. This might sound unbelievable, and yes, I'm not
totally sure I believe them, but its not that uncommon for projects
like this to have a missing paper trail.

--p

