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- From: shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley [CSC])
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Dream feature
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.160213@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:02:13 GMT
- References: <1309@esl.ESL.COM>
- Sender: shirley@fdr (Bill Shirley [CSC])
- Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/JSC
- Lines: 33
- Originator: shirley@fdr
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- In article <1309@esl.ESL.COM>, drm@esl.com (Don McGregor) writes:
- > Wouldn't it be great if you could include diagrams or pictures in the comment blocks
- > of source code? I find it to be really frustrating to have to explain everything in
- > text only when a quick diagram would clear things up really fast. Maybe a hot link
- > to a diagram off in your design document.
- >
- > What would that require, a hack to the pre-processor, some changes to Edit, and
- > abandoning all hope of portability?
- >
- > ---
- > Don McGregor | "That which does not overflow my swap file makes
- > drm@esl.com | me stronger." --Friedrich Nerdzsche
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- All you need is
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- 1) an rtftoa program - to conver RTF into ASCII files
- 2) a few lines in Makefile.preamble that convert x.rtf --> x
- anytime x is outof date relative to x.rtf
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- Then we could program in RTF.
-
- So,.....
-
- who has the RTF -> ASCII coverter?
-
- --
- Bill Shirley | ``Computer Science is not about computers any
- shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov| more than astronomy is about telescopes.''
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- --
- Bill Shirley | ``Computer Science is not about computers any
- shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov| more than astronomy is about telescopes.''
-