Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:48:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Jeff Mastry <Jeff DOT Mastry AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Adding Windows Support?
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On 17 Nov 1996, Jeff Mastry wrote:

>I read somewhere that Microsoft is dropping WinHelp altogether and going
>with HTML format help files. 
Well... I see that M$ is again trying to mimic somebody other's solutions...
But this is the right decision, I think.

>I don't remember where I read that, but I recently saw a screen shot of the
>new Win97 desktop (which is, basically, Internet Explorer 4.0) that had an
Gods! Really?! Sorry for the expression, but this sucks!
>application (Control Panel?) running, and --according to the caption-- an
>HTML help file displayed.
>
>That would certainly alleviate this problem.
Only partly, I guess. I don't think that all users of Win95 will at once
upgrade to the new Win97 (if they'll do it at all). This would only mean, at
least at the beginning, that a double set of help files will have to be
created.

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