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Documentation?

Guy Dillen
I just downloaded a trial version of  version 5XP.
Where can i find documentation (for this release)?


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Re: Documentation?

Ian Bartholomew-18
Guy,

> I just downloaded a trial version of  version 5XP.
> Where can i find documentation (for this release)?

I've appended a recent post from Andy Bower of Object Arts.  There's not a
lot I can add...

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Bower" <[hidden email]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: What's happened to the Dophin XP Education Centre????


> The new docs are in the pipeline. In the meantime you can get a semblance
of
> documentation and help by using the old Dolphin 4 download with D5.
> Go to the Dolphn 4 download library or use the following link:
>
> http://www.object-arts.com/Lib/Downloads/4.0/EducationCentre.msi
>
> When opened this will prompt for the directory where Dolphin is installed.
> Initially this will indicate a Dolphin 4 path so you should change it to
the
> location where Dolphin 5 is installed (usually C:\Program Files\Object
> Arts\Dolphin Smalltalk 5.0). Once installed, start Dolphin and evaluate
the
> following in any workspace:
>
> (RegKey localMachineRoot)
>         at: (SessionManager current productRegistryKey ,
'\EducationCentre')
>         put: (SessionManager current
> installationDirectory,'\EducationCentre.chm::/htm/').
>
> You should now be able to use the various Help menu items and F1 in the
> various tools. Please note, though, that because this is the Dolphin 4
help
> file, the screen shots will not be representative and there may well be
> pages missing (like the help for Flipper for example). You should find
that
> it is better than nothing though.