Short: GEnie ViewPort (3/94) AmigaGuide w/extras AUTHOR: jimm@genie.geis.com Uploader: Kevin Ferlazzo (k ferlazzo genie geis com) Type: mags/misc Architecture: generic Welcome to the AmigaGuide version of ViewPort! You'll need a viewer capable of understanding AmigaGuide files if you want to view this file correctly. We recommend AmigaGuide, of course. You MUST have Workbench 1.3 or greater to use AmigaGuide. NOTE: The icon supplied with this archive does not specify the location of AmigaGuide, by popular demand. This means that AmigaGuide MUST be in your search path! AmigaGuide "normally" resides in SYS:UTILITIES, and that location is part of the default search path. This ViewPort archive contains all the graphics called by the .guide document. Because the viewer program is now configurable (the default program is WDisplay), we have no way of predicting what error message you'll get if the graphics are unavailable. Something will happen, though - it usually does! If you have a problem viewing the graphics, the USUAL solution is to make sure that both ViewPort and the VPXtra files are in the same directory, and that you have CDed to that directory. Example: CD DH1:ViewPort Additional "debugging" information is available within ViewPort. Since the graphics -are- important, and since WDisplay isn't an adequate solution for folks running a Workbench with fewer than 16 colors, we have now given you the capability to use the viewer of your choice. Please note the "Click Me To Enable Graphics" button when you enter ViewPort. This is important! You MUST click this to enable the Environment Variable we use to call the viewer. If you are running 1.3 or later - which you must, to use the AmigaGuide version - your system supports Environment Variables. We've included a list of the most popular viewers - at least the ones that sprung to mind - in a special Setup section. You'll find a button to take you to this section in the Table of Contents, and more instructions are listed there. If you have any problems with the new Environment Variable method of calling a viewer, don't hesitate to contact me via GEnie Email or Internet. We want to make ViewPort the ultimate online news experience, and we are constantly exploring new avenues of delivery for ViewPort. Feel free to reprint and/or repost ViewPort as long as you do so in its entirety. If you do reprint ViewPort, please drop me a line. We'd like to know who you are, and - if possible - we'd like to see your newsletter, too. We're also interested in submissions and feedback. Again, drop me a line on GEnie. My mail address is JIM.MEYER, or I can be reached at this Internet address: jimm@genie.geis.com. Jim Meyer