Copyright ã1992 by Scott Hess.  All Rights Reserved.

But I Don't Want Online Documentation

Stuart's online documentation uses a directory structure inside the Stuart.app wrapper for storage, which means that the user can modify the structure and even delete it.  Indeed, Stuart's online manual system was designed to allow this to occur.  The documentation resides under the Stuart.app/Online/ directory in the Stuart distribution.

But before you decide to delete the manual, I would ask you to please reconsider.  Perhaps 85% of the questions and bug reports I receive about Stuart would never have come to me had the user read the documentation.  While it may be easy for you to just fire off an email message to myself, there's only one of me, and many of you.  While I enjoy corresponding with my users about Stuart, I do not enjoy having to give some of them short thrift because I cannot afford the time to answer their questions.

I particularly ask that installations of Stuart on networks retain the online documentation.  A large portion of the email mentioned above is from users who find a Stuart.app file somewhere on their network with no accompanying documentation or other information.

If you decide to remove the online documentation, I ask that you not remove the alternate documentation file located at Stuart.app/Offline.rtf.  If the Stuart.app/Online directory is not available, Stuart will read the Offline file and place the text within the Online Manual's text area.  As shipped, this file informs the user that the standard online documentation has been removed, and that the full set of documentation is available from the Internet archive sites or by contacting myself.  If convenient, I ask that you add any relevant information of your own.  For instance, if you have a floppy copy of the documentation, you may add something like:

I have Stuart's documentation on a floppy disk in my office.  If you wish to borrow it, stop by and let me know, and I'll dig it out of whichever pile it's in.

Scott Hess
Office #326
Upton Building
(835) 2788