Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!jordan From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW 411 Message-ID: <54310@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 25 Jun 91 17:46:58 GMT References: <0101000D.ylk2yi@nan.co.uk> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 49 In article coxr@piccolo.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox) writes: >sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin) writes: > >>Having said all that, I find that 411 help is the one I use most often because >>it's a lot faster than firing up HyperCard or Mouser (I can't leave them >>running because I can't compile - CPlus can't find enough MF temp mem). >>It's certainly a lot better than having copies of IM all over the desk (and >>floor :-). I do appreciate Apple's making all this info available, so please >>take this as a suggestion for making it better, not as a complaint. > >Ok I have been wondering this for a while here, what is 411? And how is it >distributed. Also I saw the SPInside Mac on AOL and wondered if it is >available anywhere bye ftp. I would much rather ftp directly to a Mac than >download at 2400 baud, not to mention that it would take 10 hours of >connection fees. > >Please respond via e-mail and I will post the summary of what I get. > > >Thanks in Advance, > >"And the Kids they dance, they shake their bones" -GD > >Chicago Soldier Field Show - June 22,1991 - What can you say... Awesome > >peace > >-Rich Dear Rich - 411 is a online information retreival system for Macintosh programming information. It is available as part of the new Macintosh Programmer's C Workshop and Macintosh Programmer's C and Object Pascal Workshop, as well as E.T.O. 411 is implemented as a MPW tool that retrieves information from a set of indexed text files. -- Jordan Mattson UUCP: jordan@apple.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. CSNET: jordan@apple.CSNET Development Tools Product Management AppleLink: Mattson1 20400 Stevens Creek Blvd, MS 75-8X Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-4601 "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis