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In article <4104@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
-Something that I think the Amiga desperately needs is online help.
-
-Just so happens that I have been working on such a thing.
-The program works best with specially formatted files. The file
-gets formatted to fit into the width of the window it is being displayed
-in. Text can be normal,bold,italic,underline,color. Fonts are supported,
-and can be specifed in the file (one font per file please). It
-almost works with proportional fonts ( it will soon ). You can
-define references associated with parts of the text. When the
-user clicks on the reference, then another window with another
-file pops up. Windows can be iconified. There is alos an index feature
-for words that don't have an explicit reference defined.
-
-So far so good. Now all I have to do is type in help files
-on AmigaDOS and the Amiga in general. Yuck. Anybody wanna help
-me out?
-
-**Is anybody interested in this, or have I been wasting my time?**
-REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   jap@frith.cl.msu.edu

This sounds nice but for me, I just wrote a short shell script called
"man" and put it in my s: directory.  When I type "man command", it
runs my favorite text viewing program on a help file of the same name
in my docs: directory.  I put all the ARP1.3 manual pages here and
every time I add a utility that came with a doc file, I add it also.
Typing "man" with no arguments just displays my docs:man file which
lists all the available on-line doc files.  It works just like
man on UNIX. Of course you can't do all this without a hard disk
(I have about 130 doc files on line).

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