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Article #230Re: Docex (incomplete sources)
From: Scott McKay
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00
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From: Luca Pisati <pisati@nichimen.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:49:39 -0700
Bradley Yearwood wrote:
>
> After seeing the discussion about the feasibility of exporting Symbolics
> documents as HTML, I took a look at my 8.3 stuff, and was quite disappointed
> to find that much of NSAGE is provided binary-only. Most every module which
> by its name, would be likely to know about the innards of SAB files, has no
> source code available, at least in the distribution that I have.
>
> This is quite frustrating. Does anyone know whether these sources are
> accessible somewhere, or are they doomed to crumble to dust and blow away?
>
> Brad Yearwood b n y at s o n i c dot n e t
> Cotati, CA
I don't know, really.
DocEx is only a browser, the authoring tool is Concordia, and I think
Concordia gives the sources to NSAGE. Also, the DocEx files were shipped in
"binary" form. With Concordia you could "uncompress" them, making them
readable by Concordia and editable.
If you look on the ANSI file system on your Genera 8.3 CD, you will
discover a fairly complete set of sources, which got on there by
accident. I don't remember if these sources included Concordia.
Concordia was sold as a separate package.
BTW: I still can't find an authoring tool like Concordia around, that
produces a database of documentation ...
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