From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-02 06:54:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!216.166.71.14!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:54:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:55:15 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Online help References: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> <3F50130A.1070406@noplace.com> <3F50A70E.7050809@noplace.com> <3F521B65.1090004@noplace.com> <20030831123103.43926d87.falis@verizon.net> <3F535639.9060008@noplace.com> <3F53EDE8.6090908@noplace.com> <47i1jb.gk2.ln@skymaster> In-Reply-To: <47i1jb.gk2.ln@skymaster> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.117 X-Trace: sv3-d3OT/bNjZBEUk/o7PAYc8CuU95OI/bhMM9nlyfHe/J3r/jcmyoR7kJRBeTg1orA/V6k8eC0s+WzLT3A!hgE2Hsejn0BqCWamwbx3jynt93XkmOrl/T06eV32sZjKCEvjrMCp1BRQ/gwERv/BNn5W3v8hZSFn!sg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42061 Date: 2003-09-02T08:55:15-05:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > "Wes Groleau" 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? :-) -- Wes Groleau Can we afford to be relevant? http://www.cetesol.org/stevick.html