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From: Richard Sargeant <Sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: The missing link
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Greetings, Carol!
> On 26 Aug 97 at 15:49, Richard Sargeant wrote:
>
> > Answering a message posted a week ago last Friday...
>
> useful ;-)
How about... Answering a message posted a bit earlier this morning... ?
[snip]
> and in English?
>
> >
> > Object '!spritename' not found in 'Acornet'.
> > Object 'flags' not found in 'Acornet'.
> > Object 'pathname' not found in 'Acornet'.
> > Object 'task_name' not found in 'Acornet'.
>
>
> erm.....
>
> >
You just overlooked escaping the character that makes StrongHelp
presume you want to create a link to pages with the names above.
> > Yes, I do know they're not really meant to be links!
[snip]
> > This manual file is four times bigger than the text
> > files that make it up. Guttorm provides a program
> > to fix this for StrongHelp manual image files.
> > After using it, the manual shrunk to 17K in size.
>
> Actually - you can clean copy stronghelp manuals
> by just dragging them to the stronghelp iconbar
And there was I reaching for the command line prompt! :-)
> icon. It so happens I forgot to do this thats all.
You just have to be thankful (or hope) that the void space
did not carry any data that you did not want to publish.
> And since I spent the weekend uploading the archives and
Uploading something so enormous is probably what most people
dread, unless they have their Acorn online permanently or
maybe have the advantage of an ISDN connection (unusual).
> finalising it all this has come too late to do anything about
And my comments about the superfluous Newsbase transports were too
late? FWIW, there was still the !NewsDir.newsbase.debugnews directory
and welcome news batch in the released this week Acornet 0.20 archive.
> it now. 50k here or there really doesn't make much difference.
Double that difference for anyone (as I did) downloading at V32bis. :-(
> > PS. The underlining effect used (shown below) is unlikely
> > to suit StrongHelp as it uses proportional fonts. :-)
>
> ?
>
> >
> > Instructions on how to add in extra apps to the Frontend
This line was used as the window title for the frontend help page, so
the squiggly line that followed may be removed, for aesthetic reasons.
Richard S.
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