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From: jnixon@spam.ua.oz (John Nixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7.0 documentation
Summary: There are many ways to provide non-print documentation
Keywords: HC, 7.0, documentation, online
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Date: 26 May 91 06:18:20 GMT
References: <29805@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991May24.182650.18142@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991May24.182650.18142@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
>
>Another (minimal) source of documentation for System 7 is in the form
>of a very interesting Hypercard stack that comes with it.  This stack
>illustrates (via animated sequences) how the new features work.
>Anyone who says Hypercard is only a toy should examine this stack.

        Except for the fact that my machine froze during one of the
animated "demonstration" sequences --- something which I have no intention
of trying to reproduce --- I heartily agree.  I also had a brief look at
the Networking Basics "help application" (?), which looked just as polished.
But since my Mac is stand-alone ...

                                John