Re: [MacPerl] GetFile and Shuck

[oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca (???)]

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

> [Uh, so I'm a week behind in answering this message, and there still are 261
> older unanswered messages]

oh gee's ... I answered this message I think.  I sent it straight to
Richard Chang, and forgot to CC a copy to the list:

Here's what I wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > I tried to read the documentation on the "Shuck" pod reader.  When I select
> > "Macintosh specific features", it says an error has occured: -43.  What
> > gives?
> 
> I think a -43 Result Code, is a fnferr ... "file not found".  But I
> could be wrong about that.
> 
> "Shuck" doesn't run on my 68000 machine.
> 
> > When I read file MacPerl.Specifics, it says
> > 
> >    THIS FILE IS NOW SUPERSEDED! Check macperl.html!
> > 
> > But, it doesn't say where I can find macperl.html!
> 
> Yep, this is a problem.  Especially for those people who aren't on the
> "Internet".  Lots of people simply maintain a UUCP mail connection, or
> don't run web browsers and prefer(ftp by email, as an example) to work
> with what they know and are comfortable with.
> 
> But that really doesn't help much, and puts them at a disadvantage.
> 
> MacPerl is a very steep learning curve (as is Macintosh Programming).
> 
> Making the whole matter much worse is Apple's paradigms.  They never
> adopted to models of "incidental learning" or of "non-linear thinking"
> in advocating systems.  Apple has always expected people to traverse
> long linear paths to proceed to even the most elementary levels.  A 
> Gatekeeper approach to limit things to cogniscenti.
> 
> But ... having said that ... have you tried Balloon Help??
> 
> It's not all that sophisticated for a help facility (not incorporating
> any real "intelligence") per se, but it is a start.
> 
> And in any non-linear system... every entry point... every start...
> should (ultimately) lead to the Way.
> 
> Many ways to scale a mountain.
> 
> > Help.
> > 
> > Richard Chang
> 
> Om:Matre:Muye:Sale:Du
> 
> 
> Istvan.