dmh@GOANNA.CS.RMIT.OZ.AU (Darren Hosking) (03/02/90)
Is there a document somewhere (latex, ditroff, or text file) that gives an overview of andrew and all its features? I couldn't find anything on the R4 tapes apart from individual descriptions of ams, atk, and oda. We want to know exactly what it does before attempting to compile it on our hybrid SYSV/BSD monster/machine. Thanks in advance, dmh Darren Hosking ACSnet: dmh@goanna.oz Department Of Computer Science ARPA: dmh%goanna.oz.au@uunet.uu.net RMIT CSNET: dmh%goanna.oz.au@australia GPO Box 2476V UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.oz.au!dmh Melbourne Vic., Australia 3001
hans@TA.OLIVETTI.COM ("Hans v. Kleist-Retzow") (07/25/90)
In the new Andrew version 3 I am looking for all the documentations
which where included in the previous release. There were e.g.
-A Guide to Andrew,
- The Andrew System
Programmer's Guide to the Andrew Toolkit
- etc.
Many of them were postscript files, which included some images and nice
formatting.
Were are they?ao06+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Ayami Ogura) (07/25/90)
The "Guide to Andrew" and the "Programmer's Guide to the Andrew ToolKit" no longer exist -- the documentation has become quite large and instead of one user guide (which was written for the CMU site only) and a two-volume programmer's guide, each class or application has been documented in a separate .doc or .help file and stored with the code for that class/application in the source directories. General information and documents on ATK can be found in the atk source directory /doc. At the present time, we are working on scripts using datacat that will group and organize all the files and print/store them as volumes for easier access. When the scripts are ready, we hope to release them as a patch. _____________________________________ Ayami Ogura Information Technology Center Carnegie Mellon University (412) 268-6798 INET: ao06+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: ao06+%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!ao06+
cch@mtgzx.att.com (C C Hayden) (07/26/90)
The old manual by Neuwirth and Ogura (Volume II) is far superior to the current documentation being distributed by the ITC. I am glad I did not discard my old reference manual, because it is impossible to find anything in the new manuals (the pages are not numbered). Also, most of what I need to know is not there and there are "no short-term plans for completing" the documents. Much of this material WAS in the previous reference manual, which WAS numbered. Andrew cannot become more widespread without an active community of people contributing useful software, and that cannot happen until there is adequate documentation. I consider the example-based exposition followed by N&O (Volume I) and by Borenstein to be worse than nothing, because it teaches you bad habbits with respect to software reuse in an object-oriented system. At least N&O (Volume II) was neutral -- just the facts (mostly). This is another area in which Andrew needs serious attention. Charles Hayden cch@mtgzx.att.com Bell Labs MT 3G-408 200 Laurel Ave, Middletown, NJ 07748 (201) 957-5558