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Subject: Re: Online Help
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
In-Reply-To: <2e237a0cff438@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> from "Michel Forget" at Jul 12, 94 05:00:14 pm
Message-Id: <9407151005.al11890@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
Precedence: bulk
What you wrote:
> I forgot to mention the location in my message; sorry. It is available at
> ftp.uni-paderborn.de in (approximately) pub/atari/tools/acc/st-guide/
> and the filename to get has 06 in it. The tools archive, with the same
> number, is also available. I really wish this program was more widely
> distributed. When I distribute the new version (4.5a) of MasterBrowse
> to GEnie/Delphi, I'll make sure that the ST-Guide 06 archive is also
> uploaded. I'll also FTP it to atari.archive.umich.edu if I can. The
> more available it is, the better.
IMHO, we can't standardize this unless the author agress to let us use it
and distribute it with our programs.
> I'll burn in hell before I learn the TeXinfo format; the document explaining
> it appears to be 500K long.
I could probably write one page telling you everything you need to know for
writing a TeXinfo document, complete with hypertext links.
The TeXinfo manual goes into all sorts of arcane details that don't apply
to most people.
> >If ST-Guide is a fairly easy format that supports some kind of formatting,
> >hypertext links, and graphics, it sounds good enough to me.
>
> It does, for all of the above cases. It also does a lot more.
But it's no good if we can't distribute it; can someone get ahold of the
author and give him a real Internet account?
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