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- From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Summary: AmigaGuide docs from C= a good idea
- Keywords: amigaguide
- Message-ID: <38168@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:10:22 GMT
- References: <ByyIs7.BBE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <72384@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec27.112627.6130@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> <BzxKuJ.G3J@NeoSoft.com>
- Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <BzxKuJ.G3J@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >As for dealers...
- [...]
- > ...I decided to play Windows Head and
- >asked if they had a help system on the Amiga... I'd been told that there was
- >this thing called "Guide". They couldn't find a *single* program that used
- >AmigaGuide, and tried to tell me that the Amiga was better because it didn't
- >waste space on online documentation. Now I'm a member of the Committee for
- >the Common Man, a group working on standards for online documentation, so that
- >was the *WRONG* thing to say.
- >
- >Damnit, Commodore, how long would it take to put AmigaGuide docs for all the
- >workbench tools online?
-
- Unknown. We are looking at it. It is not necessarily as simple as it would
- appear, just to produce the docs. Then there are the disk space concerns,
- and so on.
-
- Naturally, I can't disagree with your basic point :-/
-
- Contact information for the Committee you mentioned, if you think it would
- be relevant to future AmigaGuide docs from Commodore, would be appreciated.
-
- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- > `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?
- > 'U`
- >Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
-
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