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Copyright 1993 (c) Todd Anthony Nathan.  All Rights Reserved.

Mon Dec  6 16:33:18 MST 1993

Here is a rather useful tool for NEXTSTEP users whom are
delving into UNIX commands.  This distribution contains
a front-end to the UNIX Manual Pages.

Of particular interest is the hack to allow splitviews.
A splitview is a view which contains multiple views
(usually two) separated by a resizing knob on a bar.
A good example of such a device may be seen from your
file viewer when resizing shelf is turned on from within
the Workspace Mangler's Preferences panel.

Granted my implementation is a hack, it works and could
be duplicated (taking my code) quite easily.  Being that
HS does not current support splitviews directly, this
may be the way to do things for some time to come.  You
will see some stackviewer scroll bars when you resize
from a larger size to a smaller size.  This artifact
will likely be fixed in the future, so don't worry about
it.  Yes it is not quite so pretty, but I put SenseTalk
code in to clean things up when you resize the ManualPages.sense
main window frame.

There is also some useful techniques in making your HS document
look and feel more like a NEXTSTEP stand-alone application.
The information and help options are of particular interest
regarding this technique.  I must also point out that
this document installs its menus into the Tools menu
of HyperSense.

Finally, you are welcome to use and abuse any of the code
included in this distribution.  Just give credit where
it is needed.  Use your best judgement.  And I do NOT
take responsibility for the software's use/abuse/misuse.
Use at your own risk.

Regards,

Todd Anthony Nathan


PS.  Check sums for the files in this distribution are:

59897    58 ManualPages.sense.tar.Z

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