Re: What is the compatibility guide?
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- Subject: [mg77619] Re: What is the compatibility guide?
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:16:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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DrMajorBob wrote: > "The compatibility guide" doesn't appear to exist, as such. Correct. The only incarnation of a "Compatibility Guide" that I am aware of is the one provide by Selwyn Hollis's "Help Helper" palette [1]: the third button of the palette, called "Compatibility Guides", gives access to the scattered documentation about compatibility issues. Regards, Jean-Marc [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/ec208f62cf6e5da1/d65074d2edbebf88?lnk=gst&q=Help+Helper&rnum=1&hl=en#d65074d2edbebf88 > There are guides in subdirectories of this directory: > > ToFileName[{$InstallationDirectory, "Documentation", "English", > "Packages", "Compatibility", "Documentation", "English", "Guides"}] > > including one on Numerical Math. I've found no way to get this page > through Help, even knowing where it is... but you can go there and open > it. It doesn't mention IntervalRoots, though. > > Bobby > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:20:07 -0500, Andrew Moylan > <andrew.j.moylan at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sometimes Mathematica advises me to look in the compatibility guide: >> >> "NumericalMath`IntervalRoots` is now obsolete. The legacy version >> being loaded may conflict with current Mathematica functionality. See >> the Compatibility Guide for updating information." >> >> What is this compatibility guide? Needless to say, the new help system >> is of no use in locating it... >> >> >> > > >