Jonathan and I have written up some "rules" for your use as your copies 
of FB^3 Release 0 arrive... I'd like to add that I _know_ there are going 
to be tons of questions on "converting" your code from FBII to FB^3 - and 
there are _plenty_ of experts in doing just that, namely the beta-team 
members. However, we all have "other jobs", so please be patient!

Also... <sigh> Turn off register variables and QuickBasic labels, and 
turn on "dimmed vars required", or your project will be 100x harder to 
help you with. And it would help, if it's a conversion, if it actually 
worked in FBII first...

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Questions on converting to, or writing new apps in, FB^3

Send them to the list; but _please_ read the other messages first! 
There's nothing quite so frustrating as answering the question "why did I 
get error message X", only to see ten more the very next day asking 
exactly the same thing.

DON'T FORGET THE SUBJECT LINE! See the FAQ for appropriate designation of 
FBII, FB^3, PG, etc. questions. When there's a lot of traffic, this will 
help enormously in being able to "triage" incoming questions.

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Submitting bug reports on FB^3 itself

These should be mailed to staz@..., not the list. Please 
include the label [FB^3 BUG REPORT] in the subject line.

In order to save time for all please think to include the following 
information:
- Type of Mac, System, Memory
- Memory allocation to FB^3 Editor, Compiler, PG (if you use it)
- Indicate if this happens in the Lite or FBII mode, with 68K code, PPC 
code, FAT code...
- Please note your preference settings
- Indicate the Compiler error, or the unexpected behavior
- Try to create a short piece of sample code that demonstrates this 
behaviour (Staz hasn't got the time to pour over all the 10000 lines of 
your project to see what is going wrong).

Please remember that a bug report concerns eventual errors in the FB^3 
environment, not in your coding - check first that your syntax or 
algorithm is not at fault.

If you are converting an FBII app, then check with the Conversion docs, 
and the Reference manual, that differences with FBII have not already 
been documented.

We should be putting web resources online ASAP, to complete the currently 
available docs. See the 'typos' section.

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Submitting feature requests for FB^3

These should be mailed to staz@.... Please include the label 
[WISHLIST] in the Subject line - in this way Staz is able to filter 
urgent bug reports, and less urgent feature requests. Be warned that the 
beta team has already pretty well filled his "future projects" folder... 
but your request _may_ be one that is already there, and having multiple 
requests for the same thing may influence what gets done first. HOWEVER! 
Please realize that adding new features is non-trivial, and only the most 
important are likely to make Release 1.

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Signalling typos and other misdemeanours in the FB^3 documentation

Please post these directly to staz@.... You may crosspost 
these to the FBII list and to jonathan@... (he is 
compiling a list of typos for the FAQ sheets, and also passes the info on 
to the European localisers).

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Available online resources for FB^3

We are currently preparing this information, and as soon as it is 
publicly available, we will let you know here. A folder has been set up 
for FB^3 sample source code at futurebasic.org; due to the immediate need 
for "FBII Runtime" stuff, this folder will concentrate on the FBII 
Runtime of FB^3. An "FB3 Lite" folder will be set up shortly for "lite" 
contributions. Many more resources are planned, both at futurebasic.org 
and at other sites, so please be patient...