pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (11/01/89)
Here is the latest version of the Macintosh One-Liners. The Macintosh One-Liners are intended to condense onto a single sheet of paper information about some of the most common Macintosh problems and programming pitfalls. Each one-liner is a single line of text, shorter than 80 characters, which informs about one aspect of Macintosh use or programming. The one-liners are brief and do not give complete information about their topics. This is intentional. Detailed documentation exists elsewhere, mostly in Inside Macintosh and in the Technical Notes. If you need more information than is provided in a one-liner, you should be able to determine it by a little experimentation or by looking it up using the words in the one-liner as hints. The one-liners are short so that they can be consulted quickly and easily. One-liners give either facts or advice. The facts may be obvious to some people and obscure to others, but are important for all. The advice is intended to help keep people from running into the most common nontrivial problems. Like proverbs, the advice may not be absolute and may sometimes be more conservative than is strictly neccessary. However, I have found that a little constructive paranoia can go a long way toward avoiding problems, and more than once I have taken a precaution which seemed extreme at the time but which saved my skin later on. The one-liners started off as a list I made for myself of things to remember while writing programs. I have augmented them with my condensed records of several years of Info-Mac, Usenet, and Delphi digests and one year of Usenet reading. People who have contributed to the list since its first release are mentioned at the end. The result is very much a gestalt of the Macintosh lore I have seen and depends on the wisdom and efforts of many people. If I have forgotten to include your name, I apologize. I would be gratified if every Macintosh user and programmer kept a copy of this list and consulted it before asking questions of the network at large. Many of the most commonly asked questions are addressed in the list. Send suggestions for additional one-liners to pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu on the Internet, or PEPKE@FSU on BITNET. Have fun. [Archived as /info-mac/tips/one-liners.txt; 11K]