Re: Online help

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> "Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> a ?crit ...
>>it would be _completely_ useless--yet typical of much of the
>>help files from Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Rational,
>>Sun, and numerous other vendors.
> 
> Reminds me of OS/2 help.
> If you are wondering what the "FOO_BAR" option means and click help,
> you get a message saying:
> 
> "Click Yes to activate the FOO_BAR option and No to deactivate the
> FOO_BAR option. For more information, select "Click" and "Mouse"
> below" :-(

Exactly.  And _all_ the vendors I mentioned have been
guilty of that.  An interesting thing I noticed in the
extensions manager of Mac OS 9:

If you click on the name of an extension, you get text
in and "Additional Info" subwindow.  If you arrange the
extensions alphabetically, the first one-third have
marginally useful info.  The second one-third have
info like the above.  The final one-third all say
"No additional info is available for this item."

You suppose they had a schedule problem?   :-)

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Wes Groleau
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