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- From: jbk@world.std.com (Jeffrey B Kane)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: start an "info-mcl-faq"
- Message-ID: <199211121938.AA27407@world.std.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:38:22 GMT
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- I was wondering if we should start an info-mcl based faq.
- After working with MCL for a few months, I've noticed a lot of
- beginner issues that are not documented in the manuals, but might
- really be useful in an "faq" format.
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- Many important packages are not really documented well in the
- manuals, including resources, scroller's and others.
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- On other points, although the details are there, there isn't any
- real "overview" of how it all fits together.
-
- A number of practicle issues also seem to pop up repeatedly
- such as:
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- Should you use a "dialog" class?
- When do you need the pTable INIT (virtual memory, 040 processor, etc)?
- How do you hide the Listener?
- How do you get the selection from a sequence-dialog-item?
- Some simple exaples of using pointer, handles, records, and other non-lisp
- data structures within MCL.
- What's in the \pub\mcl2\contrib library and what does it do?
- What utilites and contributed files are most useful?
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- What do you think? Do you have other questions that we might
- put together?
-
- Jeffrey
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- Kane Biomedical Systems
- Boston, MA
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