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- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 10:18:08 -0400
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- Subject: 4.0 and its documentation
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- Having received my nice new 4.0, including lingua, orbis and ibid, I
- remain sort of puzzled about what to do with it, since there seem to be
- only the barest of guides to the latter three features, and they are the
- ones I have always found the most difficult.
-
- Previous reports mentioned (I think) a letter explaining that full
- documentation was on its way, but there is nothing of that sort in my
- package. Given the problems with 4.0 reported over the wires, along with
- my general reluctance to spend time fooling with a program which seems to
- have little future, I'm tempted to send the whole thing back and just keep
- to 3.0, which is at least the devil I know.
-
- Does anyone have any better information about what NBI's intentions are? I
- wrote them long ago protesting that they had become a lot less
- user-friendly in their documentation than when they started out, but see no
- real signs that they care very much about that. The tutorial for nb is
- promising, I suppose, but what I need, in my cybernetic darkness, is one
- for orbis and ibid.
-
- William Turpin
- Department of Classics
- Swarthmore College
-