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3 total messages Started by Don McGregor Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:00

#770

Author: Don McGregor
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:00

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Wouldn't it be great if you could include diagrams or pictures in the comment blocks
of  source code?  I find it to be really frustrating to have to explain everything in 
text only when a quick diagram would clear things up really fast.  Maybe a hot link
to a diagram off in your design document. 

What would that require, a hack to the pre-processor, some changes to Edit, and
abandoning all hope of portability?

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Don McGregor | "That which does not overflow my swap file makes 
drm@esl.com  |  me stronger."  --Friedrich Nerdzsche

Re: Dream feature

#808

Author: Bill Shirley [CSC]
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:02

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In article <1309@esl.ESL.COM>, drm@esl.com (Don McGregor) writes:
> Wouldn't it be great if you could include diagrams or pictures in the comment blocks
> of  source code?  I find it to be really frustrating to have to explain everything in 
> text only when a quick diagram would clear things up really fast.  Maybe a hot link
> to a diagram off in your design document. 
> 
> What would that require, a hack to the pre-processor, some changes to Edit, and
> abandoning all hope of portability?
> 
> ---
> Don McGregor | "That which does not overflow my swap file makes 
> drm@esl.com  |  me stronger."  --Friedrich Nerdzsche

All you need is

 1) an rtftoa program - to conver RTF into ASCII files
 2) a few lines in Makefile.preamble that convert x.rtf --> x
	anytime x is outof date relative to x.rtf

Then we could program in RTF.

So,.....

 who has the RTF -> ASCII coverter?

-- 
Bill Shirley		|  ``Computer Science is not about computers any 
shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov|	more than astronomy is about telescopes.''

-- 
Bill Shirley		|  ``Computer Science is not about computers any 
shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov|	more than astronomy is about telescopes.''

Re: Dream feature

#817

Author: Chris Lloyd
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:32

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In article <1992Aug26.160213@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov> shirley@fdr.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Shirley [CSC]) writes:
> who has the RTF -> ASCII coverter?

/usr/lib/indexing/rtf-ascii

la la la,
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::   Christopher Lloyd  ::  a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu  ::  Yrrid, Inc.    ::
::"He said he'd make me elite for $5...I think he wanted a sub or somethin'"::

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