Credits

• This styled text help system was written by R. Fronabarger, who deserves a big thank you. Thanks also to Andrew Welch, who wrote a helpful procedure for centering windows.

• The name mehitabel  is inspired by the works of Don Marquis, a wonderful writer who invented the first mehitabel and the first Archie and who wrote about them in his newspaper columns. If you find any of his books, read them — they’re both funny and wise.

• Thanks also to Bruce Gerson and Ed Edell, who suggested good suggestions and bravely beta tested the results. And to Ray Terry, who discovered and identified a subtle but significant bug.

• mehitabel was written by Pete Johnson in LightSpeed Pascal. The program is ©1989 by Pete Johnson.