Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:6609 comp.sys.amiga:38258 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuphys!lel From: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Things that need to be on the Amiga (Was: ENV: handler (was Re: A ...)) Message-ID: <693@wuphys.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 17:18:17 GMT References: <3855@cps3xx.UUCP> <7416@cbmvax.UUCP> <2025.AA2025@geo-works> <438@xdos.UUCP> <4104@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) Organization: Physics Dept., Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 37 In article <4104@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes: -Something that I think the Amiga desperately needs is online help. - -Just so happens that I have been working on such a thing. -The program works best with specially formatted files. The file -gets formatted to fit into the width of the window it is being displayed -in. Text can be normal,bold,italic,underline,color. Fonts are supported, -and can be specifed in the file (one font per file please). It -almost works with proportional fonts ( it will soon ). You can -define references associated with parts of the text. When the -user clicks on the reference, then another window with another -file pops up. Windows can be iconified. There is alos an index feature -for words that don't have an explicit reference defined. - -So far so good. Now all I have to do is type in help files -on AmigaDOS and the Amiga in general. Yuck. Anybody wanna help -me out? - -**Is anybody interested in this, or have I been wasting my time?** -REAL NAME: Joe Porkka jap@frith.cl.msu.edu This sounds nice but for me, I just wrote a short shell script called "man" and put it in my s: directory. When I type "man command", it runs my favorite text viewing program on a help file of the same name in my docs: directory. I put all the ARP1.3 manual pages here and every time I add a utility that came with a doc file, I add it also. Typing "man" with no arguments just displays my docs:man file which lists all the available on-line doc files. It works just like man on UNIX. Of course you can't do all this without a hard disk (I have about 130 doc files on line). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IBM - Inconsequential Bit Manipulator Lyle Levine lel@wuphys.wustl.edu ...!uunet!wucs1!wuphys!lel