From: Stephen Kitt <stephenk AT dai DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Adding Windows Support?
Date: 11 Nov 1996 13:40:43 +0000
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Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> writes:
> > >    Help compiler
> >
> >    Agree! - but at least you are still able to write code...
> Yeah, that's the most important thing. But, you know, these days people
> using soft for WinXX expect everything to be "user frendly", "intuitive"
> and "self-explanatory" - in one word you have to lead the user by hand
> ("sad but true"...". Help files are very important here and if you want
> your software to be used by ALL, not only by those who know what's going
> on, you have to write and compile help files. (BTW. I know that some
> time ago there was a series of articles on Windows help format in DDJ.
> Does anyone have these issues?)

The help compiler for Windows 3.x at least is available for free on
Microsoft's site and others, in the Windows Help Authoring Toolkit
(don't have an exact URL for it here, but a search should come up with
it...). I don't know about Windows 95 help files though, the format
has changed (which is why Win32s now includes WINHLP32, since Windows
3.x WINHELP can't cope with the new help files). I'll go and have a
look...

Stephen

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