Re: Pgm to increase point size

[Phil Smith phil@xxxxxxxx]

At 12:01 PM 4/1/97 -0500, Tim wrote: > >In a message dated 97-03-31 05:54:45 EST, Harry B. writes: > > > >≪ Is there any way you could document all this stuff?!! Seems like we peons > > are working with only half the power of Xy4. ≫ > > > >I'd love to if: (1) I had the time; (2) I could be sure what *wasn't* > >documented. I suspect that a lot of this stuff is in the manuals somewhere, > >but I also admit that we were developing new commands on the fly as we needed > >them, sometimes right up to ship date. Problem is, sometimes I don't know > >what I know until somebody asks! > > Aha, Plato's theory: knowledge as reminiscence. ;) > > > >Aside: I don't know who did the original docs for III+; I do know the woman > >who headed up the doc effort for Signature/Xy4/XyW. She is a skilled, > >intelligent woman who was asked to do too much with too few resources on a > >too-tight schedule. I've seen, read, and even indexed lots of other > >documentation (Lotus, Symantec, etc.), and XY4 isn't as bad as some. > > > You said it. I'll NEVER forget the first pages of my first computer > documentation: the CP/M manual from digital research. This was when my ideas > about computers were as cloudy as a 9-year-old's ideas about sex. The manual > began (from memory): "File names can be either ambiguous ("afn") or > unambiguous ("ufn")." Naturally, I didn't know that there were things called > "files" much less that they had names. > > But I'd being willing to pay you for a simple list of all the commands, > functions, and values that you know. Or how about this: I'll go through > Xy4.dlg and extract and sort all the commands and values, eliminate the > familiar ones, then email them to you and you write a short description next > to each. How's that sound and maybe if several of us throw in $20 each we > could get you $100-$200 for the job. Just throwing around ballpark numbers here. > > Regards, > Harry > > Harry Binswanger > hb@xxxxxxxx > > Great idea. I'm in for $20. Just send the bill. Phil Smith Columbia Music Company