Re: outliners, old

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 13

Posted by dave
1999-08-06 14:32:33

I still use InfoDepot 2.5 (the successor to Fair Witness) quite a bit. For some stuff, its better than MORE. I sometimes use the two in combination. InfoDepot has this nifty way of attaching link buttons (that launch documents) to any cell (InfoDepot can use a combination outline/table format). Where MORE works better, InfoDepot becomes the launch pad to the MORE file. Difficult to explain, but great to use.

Sadly, InfoDepot died. It works fine under MacOS 8 save for one annoying problem: it doesn’t print anything but blank pages. =8-0 Despite the limitation, I still use it. If I need to print something, I either use a machine that runs 7.5 or export to MORE or Word.

A friend of mine who relies on InfoDepot for his law practice tried to track down the source code. Folks tried looking in various boxes in various place, but it seems to have disappeared for good. So sad.

The hazards of living in the software boneyard. ;-)

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