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Date:	Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:51:17 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Documentation - To Peter, and maybe others

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Peter Skye wrote:

> Why don't *you* volunteer?
If I knew more I might. I have posted my system for structuring it so
that is easy to change versions and share data between versions and
platforms. I got no feedback, don't know of it helped anyone or if
anyone cared.

I have kinda figured out how to run the basics and some filtering and
some other stuff as it is presented in the program. You were asking
for info you could use to create your own filtering system outside
Mozilla, without first understanding what it is already setup to do.
I have no understanding of what you want in that regard at all. I
have done tech writing for spacecraft. My first reaction to your
request is that anyone doing docs for Mozilla would consider it
out-of-scope.
>
> FWIW, I criticized two things. One is the lack of documentation. The
> other is the "I know where it is but I'm not telling" attitude I'm
> getting when I ask questions. I offered to test the various Mozilla
> versions (your claim of a few seconds for each test is ridiculous)

Here is my idea of testing a new installation of Mozilla - once it is
configured as I suggested:

Have your current version in MOZAAA
Unzip the Mozilla tree to the root of the same partition, change name
to MOZBBB. 24 seconds
Copy one or at most three dlls to the MOZBBB tree. 19 seconds for
three dlls plus mozilla.bmp.
Run mozilla.exe. 21 seconds to select mozilla.exe, select profile, and
load program.
Access diag page. 13 seconds to access Bookmarks\Diagnostic\Java Tech
Help and load page.
System properly identified and the little guy is dancing.
Test complete. Total time 77 seconds

Machine is an AMD 2.2G, 384M RAM, about $80 for MB and CPU about a
year ago. Not exactly state of the art. The file management was done
with FC/2.

> and if you ever find out where the missing ones are please let me know.

Start here:
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/

Ray

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