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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Symantec's 'Think Reference' (Inside Mac HyperText)
Message-ID: <13982@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 91 02:43:24 GMT
References: <55825@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <53813@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <53813@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>In article <55825@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes:
>>In a recent comp.sys.mac.announce'ment, Symantec describes a new
>>hypertext-like guide to volumes 1-5 of Inside Macintosh.  Among
>>many nice features is the ability to cut and paste code examples.

>>Has anyone seen this yet?  Opinions?  List price was given as $99.

>I had the pleasure of seeing while it was beta tested
>has some good and bad aspects.

>Also, it's very fast, especially considering that their database is
>over 2 Meg -- and compacted at that! The hyperlinks make cross-
>searching easy.

   I'm using the same beta copy just now on this portable 2Mb Mac, and it
feels wonderful to have an on-line system as well as Think C working
on a 2Mb Macintosh.

   As Keith stated, the beta release contained some errors and other glitches,
but the product seems to target the market that can't run MPW/411 and 
other huge development environments on their systems.

   I also liked their incremental-search functionality - those who
have used GNU emacs know what I'm talking about.

   But why did they not allow copy/paste of the example code; for instance 
the Gestalt call example is good, but it does not make sense to retype
examples? Anyway, I have not seen the final version, so this could
have changed.

Kent

PS: Book(s) of the week: "Big Secrets" and "Bigger Secrets" by Poundstone.

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Kent Sandvik, DTS Rock Lobster
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