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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Online Help
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 17:00:14 -0600
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-
- Hello Chris,
-
- >Is this available anywhere? Will the author make it available for developers
- >to distribute with their programs (ie, either donate it, or give us some
- >sort of blurb saying "Here is X, and ST-Guide; see ST-GUIDE.TXT for more
- >info about this excellent thing that we're using to provide online help.")?
-
- I forgot to mention the location in my message; sorry. It is available at
- ftp.uni-paderborn.de in (approximately) pub/atari/tools/acc/st-guide/
- and the filename to get has 06 in it. The tools archive, with the same
- number, is also available. I really wish this program was more widely
- distributed. When I distribute the new version (4.5a) of MasterBrowse
- to GEnie/Delphi, I'll make sure that the ST-Guide 06 archive is also
- uploaded. I'll also FTP it to atari.archive.umich.edu if I can. The
- more available it is, the better.
-
- As for the developer, you will have to contact him to find out how he
- feels about having it released with products. I think he would like
- the idea, but I'm not sure. He has a MAUSNet address in his documentation.
- If you do use ST-Guide, for now the best solution might be to just make
- sure you upload the ST-Guide archive at the same places you upload your
- program, and make sure there is a note in the documentation saying where
- Internet, GEnie, Delphi, and CompuServe users can get it. That is really
- about the best you can do, I would say.
-
- > - people will complain about having to write in the TeXinfo format
- > (which is a tagged format, more like TeX than anything else)
-
- I'll burn in hell before I learn the TeXinfo format; the document explaining
- it appears to be 500K long.
-
- >If ST-Guide is a fairly easy format that supports some kind of formatting,
- >hypertext links, and graphics, it sounds good enough to me.
-
- It does, for all of the above cases. It also does a lot more.
-
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