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- With System 7, Apple introduced many new software features, including a
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- Help menu for every application. Applications which are System-7-aware
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- sometimes put commands in this menu to let you access help information,
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- perhaps listing several topics. When you choose a command, the
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- application puts up a window, where there is usually a scrolling text box
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- and a list or pop-up menu of chapter headings forming a table of contents.
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- In most cases, it’s the same display you’d have seen under System 6.
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- The Help menu is just a new “handle” for it. The applications continue to
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- handle help display themselves, each in its own way.
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- Help on Wheels is the first publicly available help server for the
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- Macintosh. It takes advantage of System 7 capabilities to serve “client”
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- applications with a consistent interface for their help information. To
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- you, the user, the only difference between a Help on Wheels client and any
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- other application is that the help window belongs to a separate application,
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- namely, the help server.
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- åWho Can Use Help on Wheels?
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- Any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later can use Help on Wheels. There
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- is nothing special to install. You may never have occasion to open it
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- directly, but as long as it is available on some mounted volume, it will
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- appear automatically whenever you ask any client to display help.
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- Help on Wheels can be placed on an AppleShare file server, where any
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- number of users can access it simultaneously.
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