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- {subhead} ARF-wizard v0.6 (v0.7?){def}{p}
- Review by Renne Nissinen
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- Aminet's readme-files are really easy to write by hand with a simple text
- editor, right? Yet there are a couple readme-creators around... Well don't
- bother, you were right all along! ARF-wizard is a good example of this.
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- First I thought I'd just run ARF-wizard directly, but it said "Can't Find
- IFF 'BODY'" with two "OKAY!" buttons. Uh-oh, looks like Blitz... Well, it
- obviously needs some file, so I decided to run the installer. But the icon
- was outrageously deceitful; instead of the standard Installer tool I got a
- DOS script that just did some things and disappeared!
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- Well then, let's have a little look-see at the script... okay, it copied
- "ed" and "join" versions 37.x to C:, replacing my 39.x versions. Thanks!
- It also shoved the pic it needs to ENV: (hmm...). Ok, on with the testing.
- The program itself looks irritatingly like an installer from Windoze;
- one question per "page" and back/next buttons on the bottom. It asks all
- the required and some optional fields and lets you edit the description
- with "ed" (you can't choose the editor). After that it presumably uses the
- "join" command to generate the readme file (which, by the way, can't have
- spaces in the file name or it'll be cut).
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- That's it, then. There you have an "easily" generated readme file, which
- would've been loads easier to write by hand if you've already managed to
- create something you want to send to Aminet. On top of this all, the "Bugs"
- section of the manual is quite interesting. "May crash on exit if used from
- WB".. "NO error handling on cli interface" (!!!!)... and something about the
- GUI not working... Wonderful, don't you think?
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- The funniest thing in all of this is that writing readme-files shouldn't
- even be easy, or as in this case, so limited. The readme is the number one
- reason why people download a file or skip it, so don't you think you should
- spend some time writing and preparing it if you want someone to actually try
- your program or game, or whatever? :o)
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- Available from: Who cares!?
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