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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
Precedence: bulk
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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