Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usenet From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu Subject: Re: Help in Mathematica (was: Maple for NeXT) Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu Reply-To: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute References: <1991Apr21.191124.14582@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 04:39:43 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu> bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: >In article hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >> (the Mathematica 1.2 I got with my NeXt station >> does not have help at all). > > Actually, 1.2 *does* have a fair amount of help stuff and it >works just fine under NS 1.0a. NS 2.0 broke it and nobody expects >it to be fixed until Mathematica 2.0 comes out. I'm not a Mathematica wizard, but I had to install version 1.2 of Mathematica on some NeXT 2.0 machines. I don't know if the following solves all the help problems, but I did notice that if you select "help" from the menu you get a dialog that is showing you nothing. The dialog has a scroll bar in it, but there's no control in the scroll bar (as if the window is showing everything there is to show). I found that if you click in the scroll bar, the help information magically appears. I don't know if *all* the help info appears, but quite a bit shows up. - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu for NeXT mail (frequent readers of c.s.n will notice that a lot of my posts start with "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but..." :-)