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From: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Why doesn't Mathematica's help work?
Message-ID: <1427@actisb.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 91 19:09:50 GMT
Organization: Actis in Berlin GmbH, W. Germany
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Well, FAQ and NextAnswers checked, here's one for you: on my machine,
Matematica's help function won't work. Neither the '?'-cursor, nor any
Help-Button in any panel, nor Help on Selection... nothing. I get the
help panel, sure, but it has no information in it---the text text
field is just empty!

I've done some exploration of my own (just snooping around as joe
user), opened Mathematica.app to look inside it, and there was a
notebook named MatematicaHelp.ma, mod 644, I was even able to load it
into Mathematica and it seemed to be the right thing, there's some
blurb in there telling me that this is the file used by the on-line
help system.

So what's the problem? everything seems to be fine, but it won't work!
Has a similar thing happened to you?  I'm trying all this un an '030
Cube, 16 MB RAM, 330 MB Harddisk, NextStep 2.0.
-- 
               Federico Heinz (federico@actisb.uucp)

-- 
               Federico Heinz (federico@actisb.uucp)