Re: RPG H, F, and D specs freeform documentation software

+1

When I started in this field in 1989, at Help Systems, there was a co-marketing kind of relationship between HS and Hawkeye. That is no more.

In recent years I went looking for Pathfinder and had the hardest time of it - so I pretty much gave up - I had my doubts that they even had a plugin for WDSC, etc.

We have Abstract, and they DO have a plugin - albeit done, may I say, on the cheap? You have to install the Abstract component into Access, then the plugin basically runs things out of that component. It is useful but kind of weak, seems to me.

And now with the "stabilizing", shall we say, of Access, this becomes more of a problem. There's a similar question around SEQUEL's dependence on Access for authentication in its Viewpoint client - I expect SEQUEL to take care of that challenge, and I want to see Abstract being developed just as vigorously.

We shall see - and I HAVE had some communications with these companies about this.

Cheers
Vern

On 4/8/2016 5:20 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Glad to hear it Doug,

If only they didn’t make it appear that they don’t actually want to sell anything to you!

The website is better than it used to be, but if I didn’t already know I wanted the product I doubt I’d have the patience to go through all the form filling to find out more.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Apr 8, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Englander, Douglas <Douglas_Englander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Jon,

Pathfinder does support free format H, F, and D specs in their latest release.

Doug

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