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In article <MWM.90Aug14134103@raven.pa.dec.com>, mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike
(Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes:
|> From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
|> Subject: Re: autodoc reader
|> 
|> In article <13794@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter
Cherna) writes:
|> 
|>    Path: bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!peter
|>    From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
|>    Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
|>    Date: 14 Aug 90 14:45:00 GMT
|>    References: <6265@milton.u.washington.edu>
|>    Reply-To: peter@cbmvax (Peter Cherna)
|>    Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
|>    Lines: 27
|> 
|>    In article <6265@milton.u.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.u.washington.edu
(Dale Larson) writes:
|>    ><eat me>
|>    >
|>    >Does anyone know where I can get a good autodoc reader?
|>    >(better than "more" or "less" :-)
|> 
|>    Fish disk 297 includes the DevKit, which is a collection of ARexx macros
|>    and C-programs for integrating CygnusEd into the autodocs and includes,
etc.
|>    There is a stand-alone program called GetAutoDoc that is part of it.
|> 
|> I've got (had? - depends on many other things) a version of the 2.0
|> AutoDocs loaded into the hypertext system "Thinker". When CBM gets
|> more 3000's so they can ship me one, I'm going to try it with the
|> read-only demo version.
|> 
|> The results look more like the infominder version than getautodoc, but
|> it's got one advantage over both: given an autodoc that references
|> another function, you can click on the names of functions, and get the
|> docs for the referenced function. Your choice of doing it in the
|> current window, another window, or any open thinker window.
|> 
|> Unfortunately, building those thinker documents was a lot of work, and
|> it's not liable to be repeated. Nor am I sure about how I can
|> distribute them - after all, they're covered by some funny agreement I
|> had to sign to get them.
|> 
|> It'd help a lot of the autodocs had a consistent format, instead of
|> whatever whoever wrote them thought would work best. Then again, that
|> would probably help _everybody_ who wanted to load the autodocs into
|> some form of "intelligent reader".
|> 
|> 	<mike
|> --
|> When logic and proportion have fallen softly dead,	Mike Meyer
|> And the white knight is talking backwards,		mwm@relay.pa.dec.com
|> And the red queen's off her head,			decwrl!mwm
|> Remember what the dormouse said.
|> 

It would be nice if the autodocs came with a decent reader/cross referencer...

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