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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Online Help
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 16:53:12 -0600
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- Hello Rick,
-
- >If you are going to have any discussion about online help systems, please
- >do not forget the online help system we introduced into Geneva. Which is
- >a) available outside of Geneva and b) based on the Pure C online help
- >system making implementation very easy.
-
- Is it a HyperText system, though? The main advantage of ST-Guide is that
- it can have graphics, sounds, automatic indexing, text effects, and can
- receive messages from applications for context sensitive online help. It
- also permanently resides in RAM (40K at the most) and only keeps the
- current page in memory. It stores the online help in an LZH-like format
- on disk, so it uses very little space. It is free, too, which is also
- an important argument. You said the Geneva help system was available
- outside Geneva, but I'm not sure if you meant as a separate free product
- or just that it could be used by other programs?
-
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