ThinkTank Manual

THINKTANK TECHNICAL NOTES

This manual contains all you need to know for normal operation and installation of ThinkTank.. But we’ve designed ThinkTank as an open system and you may want to put it to specialized use. To support such efforts, Living Videotext maintains a library of ThinkTank technical notes that address certain issues in more detail than would be appropriate in this manual.

The technical notes available at this time include:

1.Special Information for Hard Disk Users

Earlier in this appendix we presented standard in- structions for installing ThinkTank on a hard disk system. But you may prefer a custom installation that allows you to start up ThinkTank automatically when you turn on your computer, or (on some com- puters) at least to set the swapping option when you enter PASCAL or execute ThinkTank. This technical note includes detailed instructions and information to help you customize ThinkTank to your hard disk systern.

2.Using ThinkTank with a Word Processor

You can PORT a ThinkTank outline to a text file and edit it with a PASCAL—based word processor. But what if you want to reverse the process —— create a document with a word processor and port it into a ThinkTank outline? This technical note describes the rules for creating STRUCTURED text files with your PASCAL—compatible word processor. It also discusses how you can port text files into ThinkTank that aren’t organized in STRUCTURED style. Finally, it contains a list of word processing programs that are known to be compatible with ThinkTank.

3.Information for Programmers

ThinkTank outlines are stored on your disks in a special outline file format. This format is not

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