John Lewis wrote in a message to All:
JL>     I'm looking for a manual for an old copy of Autocad -
JL>          version    2.17c
JL>          can anyone here help me?
Version 2.17 brought us autolisp, version 2.18 added more, pan and zooms 
still caused regens. This is Sept 1985 and March 1986. At that time manuals 
were loose leaf notebooks with tab dividers. When a new version came in I 
took the old manual and removed loose sheets so I could use the binder for 
printer plots of blocks, font and shape files. The pages and old disk got 
stuck into a large mailing envelope, and stored off some place. We've moved 
twice since '86 and I would have no idea where to even start looking for that 
stuff.
Best bet would be to search at some used paperback book stores and look for a 
R9 third party "How to use" manual. While in ACAD turn the printer on (ctl p) 
and type !atomlist  at the command prompt. This will give you a list of 
all the autolisp functions in 2.17. If you got all the disk of your bootleg 
copy you should have the Help files. Finding drivers for that old a version 
for things like video, printer and plot is going to be really hard, unless 
you got a bunch of old hardware laying around.
I still run R10c7 (along with R12 & R13) once in while and it's getting hard 
to find new video and printer drivers for it. If I was you I would get 
AutoCAD LT instead of trying to use something as old as 2.17. You also 
wouldn't be breaking the law.
           [shb]
           moderator, A_CAD fidonet echo
           first copy of autocad was v1.7, run on an IBM XT
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