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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Libraries and versions
Message-ID: <11542@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 91 07:37:40 GMT
References: <68505@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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With respect to copyright notices and name conflicts:

Sparcom has come up with a consistent framework for our products, as I will
describe.  Pick a product--say, the Personal Information Manager.  The name
of the that library is 'PIM', and in the Library sub-menu you will see two
keys:  |PIM| and |ABOUT|.  Pressing |ABOUT| displays a screen with the 
Sparcom logo, the product name, the part number, the copyright w/ date, and
the release version number of the product.  However, the full name of the
key/command is ABOUTPIM, if you were to want to type it in on the stack.  In
a similar vein, we have EEAPP, ABOUTEEAPP, MEAPP, GCAPP, GCREF, MEREF, EEREF,
MATH2, and all the associate ABOUT... keys.  APP stands for Application Pac,
and REF for Reference Pac.  One last library that is available is the File
Manager, called FMGR and ABOUTFMGR.

I would urge against TOO MANY different sub-programs in the Library sub-menu;
instead, we have gone with a single ABOUT... key (an idea I stole from the 
Macintosh standard interface of an About Box).

Sound reasonable?

Scott.