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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
Subject: Re: Help in Mathematica (was: Maple for NeXT)
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References: <1991Apr21.191124.14582@watmath.waterloo.edu> <HARDY.91Apr21222959@golem.ps.uci.edu> <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 04:39:43 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.025216.11147@mp.cs.niu.edu>
            bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>In article <HARDY.91Apr21222959@golem.ps.uci.edu> 
            hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
>>     (the Mathematica 1.2 I got with my NeXt station
>>     does not have help at all).
>
>     Actually, 1.2 *does* have a fair amount of help stuff and it
>works just fine under NS 1.0a.  NS 2.0 broke it and nobody expects
>it to be fixed until Mathematica 2.0 comes out.


I'm not a Mathematica wizard, but I had to install version 1.2 of Mathematica
on some NeXT 2.0 machines.  I don't know if the following solves all the help
problems, but I did notice that if you select "help" from the menu you get a
dialog that is showing you nothing.  The dialog has a scroll bar in it, but
there's no control in the scroll bar (as if the window is showing everything
there is to show).

I found that if you click in the scroll bar, the help information magically
appears.  I don't know if *all* the help info appears, but quite a bit shows
up.

- Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu for NeXT mail
  (frequent readers of c.s.n will notice that a lot of my posts
   start with "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but..."  :-)
