GrandView 2.0 manual scanned and posted

Posted by 22111
Feb 26, 2014 at 11:37 PM

Jim,

This is tremendous work for which we all (I hope, whilst speaking for others) are deeply thankful to you, especially in light of the amount of effort you put into scanning those 736 pages - wow!

Of course, such an extent is overwhelming and intimidating, and I very much fear GV also had been a single-pane outliner, so the question arises, what are the possible ideas there, which would then “translate” to the 2- and 3-pane variety.

In those days, I just used ThinkTank (and yes, it was an illegitimate copy, without documentation), the seemingly least “developed” of them all, and so I quickly left, for XYwrite, and also Framework, both of which I cannot praise enough.

So many people here mentioned GV over the years; now there would be a good moment to indicate some specifics (= in order to spare me 2 days of minute searching territory complety unknown by me). ;-)

This being said, Jim, thank you so much, your big effort is an invaluable contribution to today’s industry - and this also answers any possible “copyright infringement” consideration some bad-intentioned people might utter upon this act of “bootleg” publication:

The scientific value of having this info available by far outweights any “copyright” the undertakers of this software might own to its documentation (which by the way of the burial of the respective sw has lost any commercial value): Publication of this documentation is in the public interest. Period.