| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 8 Sep 2000 at 00:15:02 |
| Subject: | Re: AmigaGuide |
Hello Kevin
On 06-Sep-00, Kevin Twyman wrote:
>>> Is there an earlier version/standard of Amigaguide docs, and can
>>> they be converted?
>
>> Take a look at the file ":ftree/guide/RCS/ftree.guide,v" in a text
>> viewer and you'll see that the begining of the file has loads of odd
>> junk in it and the where there should be single "@"'s there's two
>> "@@". Even Heddley wont load it, and that's fairly tolerant of
>> faults in guides.
>
> Right, so it isn't something I'm doing wrong, then? ;-)
Nope, the file in question is mangled in some way, though heaven knows what's
done it. there is another possibility that it was never intended to be a
proper AmigaGuide file but included as an internal help file within the
program itself. I have no idea about this as I'm not a programmer.
> I tried to make some alterations by chopping the file to look more
> like an amigaguide file that worked, but didn't get too far. I hadn't
> heard of Heddley, either, not having had much to so with AG files, so
> I'll grab that from you and investigate further.
I can't take the credit for Heddley, that's the work of Edd Dumbill, take a
look on my site where it's all explained.
>> The best I can get is by loading it into a text editor (CygnusED in
>> my case), chop off the first part, to line 41 where it says
>
> Wow! No wonder I didn't have any luck!
:)
>> I really have no idea how the ftree.guide file got the name
>> "ftree.guide,v" or why it's written the way it is. I suspect that
>> it's been converted badly by something in the past. Also worth
>> noting that it's a beta from 1994, so anything's possible.
>
> I was puzzled by the archive as well. I know it's old, but it actually
> does manage to print a graphical family tree, as long as you feed it
> the right information, as I tried one of the examples that came in the
> archive.
I didn't try running the program as TBH it's of no real interest to me, I was
just curious about the AmigaGuide file. Which is something I have an interest
in.
> Thanks for all your trouble, I shall have another bash at this one!
Best of luck, you're going to need it. :)
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