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"Inside Norton Navigator", Katherine Murray, 1996, 1-55828-467-2,
U$24.95/C$34.95
%A   Katherine Murray
%C   115 West 18th Street, New York, NY   10011-4195
%D   1996
%G   1-55828-467-2
%I   MIS Press/M&T Books/Henry Holt
%O   U$24.95/C$34.95 +1-212-886-9378 fax: +1-212-633-0748, +1-212-807-6654
%O   76712.2644@compuserve.com http://www.mandt.com fburke@fsb.superlink.net
%P   269
%T   "Inside Norton Navigator"
 
This is a reasonably competent replacement for the Norton Navigator (for
Windows 95) documentation.  The text is as readable as any other piece of
computer documentation, and the text instructions are clear enough.  There are
a great many screen shot illustrations, but, as with most documentation for GUI
programs, the single static screen shots do not give much of an idea of the
sequence of moves to be made.
 
Since Norton Navigator is an aid to the use of Windows 95 (itself, supposedly,
a "user-friendly" system), the need for such a keystroke level guide is
questionable.  There are some "shortcuts" listed within the text, but they
aren't really useful.  The book tends to oversell the product and then not
deliver.  As one example, the cover hypes the use of long filenames with old
(pre-Win95) applications.  The table of contents does not list such an
operation: the index lists "long filenames".  One of the pages hardly mentions
it, while the other finally tells you that this is supported under LFN.  Back
to the index, where you finally are told where in Norton Navigator to turn on
the function.  That is *all* you are told, however.  There is not the slightest
mention of how this might work.
 
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKINNRNV.RVW   960416

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