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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Information on Amiga Technical Reference Seri
Message-ID: <00675976749@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 91 19:19:09 GMT
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From article <1991Jun2.121530.942@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, by chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis):
> 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...

I disagree. Sure, having the index on disk is a great help. But looking
around my chair here (I'm in the middle of a project), there's six
different manuals open to pages that I'm referencing, and combs, pencils,
and Post-It notes stuck in other places that I'm referencing. I simply
cannot do that on my computer screen, because it isn't *BIG* enough (my
floor is a lot bigger than my 1084 :-). I haven't found a text editor yet
that's good at quickly accessing a "marked" location without requiring you
to remember "mark #1, or mark #45?"... closest would probably be "tags" or
DME's "refs" facility. Here, it's easy to say "Well, that yellow comb is
intuition.h, because that blue pen before it is console.h".

I've used a "C" compiler that had the documentation on disk. I swiftly gave
up trying to reference it, and in disgust went to the bookstore to buy a
third-party manual for it. (Hint -- Microsoft product). I don't really
relish the prospect of spending $150 for the privilige of undergoing that
experience again!

Eric Lee Green   (318) 984-1820  P.O. Box 92191  Lafayette, LA 70509
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