Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Norton's Online Help (was Re: ssignal() vs signal() ) Message-ID: <11190@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 1 Aug 88 17:37:17 GMT References: <141900035@occrsh.ATT.COM> <11175@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) Distribution: na Organization: malkaryotic Lines: 19 nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: > >Sorry Bob, but I gotta flame you on this one. Usually you're on track, but >you missed the ball here. With QuikHelp (recently posted to c.b.i.p) and the >TC help file, I can get a reference within about two tenths of a second. In >that much time I can barely pick a book out of the lineup, much less open it. (jeez, hardly even a suntan...:-) Well, I was getting a little shirty there. My real objection to online help / preference for books is that I can have the information "displayed" simultaneously with the screen I'm working on. Even if I had the resources to support multiple windows, etc., I still wouldn't have as much display area -- just that one screen to show everything. Now if I could get a multiple SCREEN machine... and if one of them could fit comfortably in my lap.... -- bob,mon (bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) "`This must be deep' means `I can recognize all these words individually, but dam' if I can make any sense out of the order in which they currently appear....'" - Gil Scott Herron