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From: higgin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Higginbottom - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <22109@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 13:32:08 GMT
References: <21956@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1603@glyph.kingston.ny.us> <1991Jun2.121530.942@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1991Jun2.003143.21316@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Higginbottom - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun2.003143.21316@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
$In article <1991Jun2.121530.942@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis) writes:
$>
$>what I'd _really_ like to see if the WHOLE RKM set released on
$>disk ( as opposed to just the autodocs ). The Unix box I use has
$>all it's manuals on a single CDROM, and being able to get the
$>machine to search for info (as opposed to thumbing thru often incomplete
$>indexes on paper manuals) is a real god-send...
$>
$	Hmm. Very interesting idea. CD-ROMs are becoming more and
$more widespread. If CATS released the entirety of the series on
$CD ROM, perhaps charged $150 or so for the CD, and included
$programs to automate interfacing with the Amiga via word
$processing, printer output, etc., I think CBM would have a
$serious product, one that would improve efficiency.
$	If, for example, from CED I press a function key that
$signifies the autodocs, type a keywork, and then up pops a window
$which I can cut-and-paste from...

We are looking into making this a reality.  It is a big job.  We're
currently experimenting with putting just the includes and autodocs
with a nice "hypertext" browse/search front end on it.  If this
experiment goes well, we could get the whole thing done by early next
year.  (It will take that long because we haven't finished the 2.0 RKMs
yet for one, and we have a Developer's Conference in there, too).

If you or anyone you know has experience in putting large reference
works onto CD-ROM, and think that you could help us speed up the
process, please contact me or Dan Baker (dan@cbmvax...) who is in
charge of CATS documentation.

	Regards,
	Paul Higginbottom
	Manager, Developer Support, CATS.
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