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In article <HARDY.92Oct11185311@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu  
(Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
> Since we keep discovering nice new hidden features in NS 3.0 (such as
> the Decompress and Unarchive features, discussed recently in this
> group), features which may or may not be documented in the full
> release  notes (if one can access them), it would be nice if someone 
> at NeXT who knows them all would publish a simple list, 
> posting it here and to the Archives. If such a listing exists, could
> someone point us to it. 
> Thanks in advance!

There are many cool and wonderful things in 3.0 that have gone unmentioned in  
comp.sys.next.*.  To find out what they are try looking through the following:

/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/*
Everyone should read every file in here.  Lots of Good Stuff(tm).

/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Concepts/ObjectiveC.rtfd
You thought you read this one already?  Wrong.  It has very important sections  
on protocols and Distributed Objects.  Great Stuff.

/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/GeneralRef/09_MachKit/*
Unfortunately not mentioned in the Release Notes.  I only discovered it from a  
reference to the NXLock class in .../GeneralRef/06_DistributedObjects (also  
very good).

/usr/lib/NextStep/* (esp. the .tiffs)
Does anyone know how to get a list of the names of all the system bitmaps in  
/usr/lib/NextStep/Resources/Shared(Color|Gray)[Alpha].tiff?
(ala +findImagedNamed:)  The docs on system bitmaps only cover a small fraction  
of the images here.  BTW, I disagree with several other posters that the new  
icons are ugly (with the exception of IB and PB).  Use the Workspace finder to  
select and open all the .tiffs under /usr/lib/NextStep.  Way Cool.

The Documentation for 3.0 is far superior to previous releases.  It could  
always improve, however.  Having the User's Guide online, and sitting on the  
File Viewer shelf so people take the hint and read it, would be one such  
improvement.  Another deficiency will be remedied when Addison Wesley publishes  
the hard copy version of the docs (that way I can take a copy of them with me  
to the bathroom ;-).  All in all, a thumbs up on the 3.0 documentation.

Spend a day browsing the new online docs.  It will save you at least that much  
time down the road.

Linus Upson
lupson@geom.umn.edu