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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: APDA on a disk
Message-ID: <1327@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 25 May 89 20:20:26 GMT
References: <31042@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <31042@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:

>So what would people like to see? MS-Word files? Text stashed into HyperCard?
>Text stashed into HyperCard with Hypertext links? Perferences on some fancy
>search and retrieval engines? "Read me" files in MPW format?

  How about implementing one of the WP-based options, like "Read me" MPW
files or something, with a simple HyperCard index stack which would start
off knowing something about the CD's layout and allow the user to pick an
item on which (s)he wants documentation.  Then, the stack would read the
text into a scrollable field.
  That way, someone could browse and double-click on a "Read me" to get
information OR use a HyperCard stack to find needed information.
  Of course, someone would have to create an index and a whole bunch of
applicable keywords for all the stuff on the disk but it would be versatile.

                           -- Mark Wilkins