Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!wjg.enet.dec.com!guineau From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: autodoc reader Message-ID: <14622@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 15 Aug 90 19:11:04 GMT References: <6265@milton.u.washington.edu> <13794@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA Lines: 65 In article , 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: |> > |> > |> >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". |> |> -- |> 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... -- W. John Guineau guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation Marlboro MA. 01752