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Subject:Information for UNIX Help stuff (fwd) From:Glen Accardo <glen -at- SOFTINT -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Aug 1994 21:32:40 -0500
Thought some of you might be interested in this. It is about Bristol
Technologies HyperHelp version 4.0 and some other useful multi-platform
help stuff. It's kinda long, so if you don't wanna read it, delete now!
Forwarded message:
From: Bristol Portability Times <ptimes -at- bristol -dot- com>
Subject: August 1994 Bristol Portability Times
o Introduction
o Bristol Technology Announces HyperHelp 4
o Bristol Briefs
- Windows Source Code Preview
- Employee Growth
- HyperHelp 4.0 FCS
- Wind/U 2.0 FCS
- Bristol Live - at a Conference Near You
- Introducing Wind/U-Talk for Wind/U Users
- Scot Wingo Joins The XJournal Regulars
o Porting International Applications with Wind/U
o Customer News
o Just the FAQs
o Helpful Hint for Wind/U Users
o About Bristol
Welcome to the second on-line issue of The Portability Times(tm). The
Portability Times is a quarterly publication of Bristol Technology
Inc. Its goal is to provide information about Bristol products to our
customers. This issue was sent to over 2,300 corporate and ISV
software developers world-wide. For subscription or topic requests or
suggestions, please mail: ptimes -at- bristol -dot- com
For information on any Bristol product, please mail: info -at- bristol -dot- com
Ridgefield, Conn., June 20, 1994 - Bristol Technology Inc. (Bristol)
today announced HyperHelp(tm) 4, a major new release of the company's
on-line UNIX help product. HyperHelp 4 combines support for every
major documentation tool with a flexible programming interface to
produce the most advanced and full featured on-line help tool in the
UNIX marketplace.
HyperHelp 4 has added additional support for the advanced formatting
capabilities of FrameMaker and Interleaf. Support of these powerful
documentation tools, along with new searching and printing
capabilities, allows an even wider use of HyperHelp as a complete
on-line documentation delivery system.
HyperHelp 4 maintains cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft's
WinHelp by adding support for Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL). DLLs
enable developers to extend the functionality of HyperHelp by adding
data on the fly and linking in additional graphics formats, and other
multimedia formats.
"HyperHelp 4 reinforces HyperHelp as the industry standard for on-
line UNIX help," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology
Inc. "HyperHelp 4 pushes beyond simple on-line help with its improved
ability to support such a wide variety of authoring tools, while
maintaining all the hyper-linking, printing, searching, and viewing
functionality of WinHelp."
KEY ENHANCEMENTS
* Improved FrameMaker Support - HyperHelp now supports many
new FrameMaker features in MIF files, such as mid-topic jumps,
conditional text, variables, vector graphics, cross references, auto-
generated hyperlinks from the table of contents or index, buildtags,
first/last page links, and much improved WYSIWYG. These
enhancements allow writers to utilize advanced FrameMaker features
in their on-line help files.
* User Extendable with DLLs - This enhancement allows users to extend
HyperHelp by adding their own DLLs, or shared libraries. For example,
users can include uncompiled external data in a HyperHelp topic at
runtime, include new display formats in embedded Windows, or register
DLL functions as HyperHelp macros. Developers benefit by being able
to extend their on-line help implementation by including additional
text, data, graphics, and other multimedia formats dynamically with
the HyperHelp Viewer.
* User Reporting - This enhancement allows developers to log and
time-stamp all HyperHelp Viewer activity. Developers can use the
Viewer activity information to determine where their end-users are
having the most difficulty with the application or the help files.
* Improved Printing - This enhancement allows users to print a single
topic, multiple topics, or even an entire help file. End-users
benefit by being able to graphically choose and print a combination of
help topics, or easily select and print the on-line help documentation
in its entirety.
* Improved Find and Sort - This enhancement is an improvement to
HyperHelp's full text search functionality. End-users benefit by
being able to quickly search for any word in a specific topic or
throughout the help document, then sort the result by the order of the
topic, by the number of occurrences, or alphabetically .
* Additional Product Updates - The following substantially improve the
usability and functionality of HyperHelp: (1) improved table support,
(2) Interleaf RTF support, (3) new audio macro, (4) Word 6.0 RTF
support, and (5) improved Microsoft Help compatibility.
HyperHelp offers developers the most cost-effective method for
including on-line context-sensitive help functionality within their
applications. The price for HyperHelp 4 remains $5,000 USD. No
royalties are charged for including the HyperHelp Viewer with an
application. HyperHelp 4 is available on Sun SPARC Solaris 1 and
Solaris 2, HP700 HP-UX 9, IBM RS/6000 AIX, SGI IRIX, DEC Alpha OSF/1,
and Intel SCO, SVR4.2, and Solaris 2.
HYPERHELP BRIDGE UPDATED
HyperHelp Bridge(tm) allows writers who author in FrameMaker or SGML
editors to quickly and easily produce help files that are used with
the Microsoft Windows Help facility. HyperHelp Bridge translates
HyperHelp help files compiled from MIF and SGML sources into RTF files
that are used as input for Microsoft WinHelp. Writers benefit by
being able to keep just one FrameMaker or SGML documentation source
base for use with both HyperHelp on UNIX and Microsoft WinHelp on
Windows or Windows NT. HyperHelp Bridge maintains all on-line help
attributes, including hyperlinks, pop-up definitions, browse
sequences, bitmaps, and macros.
Bristol's OLE2 group is busy bringing Microsoft's OLE2 to UNIX.
Bristol will be the first to deliver true OLE2 on UNIX. Watch for
more details in the next Portability Times.
* EMPLOYEE GROWTH
Bristol continues to grow. In the last month, a new position of
Controller was filled. Bristol is also gearing up for another round
of engineering recruiting. Hiring good people is the most important
thing we do!
* HYPERHELP 4.0 FCS
HyperHelp 4.0 shipped this July. Upgrades have been shipping for a
couple of weeks, so if you haven't received your upgrade product yet,
you be receiving it soon! HyperHelp 4.0 has received great feedback
so far, especially from our customers who use FrameMaker.
* WIND/U 2.0 FCS
The First Customer Shipment of Wind/U 2.0 has arrived! Thanks to many
of you who tested three beta releases of Wind/U 2.0. Wind/U 2.0 is
the first 32-bit Windows-on-UNIX product on the market, and includes
support for the 32-bit MFC 2.0 and 16-bit MFC 2.5.
* BRISTOL LIVE - AT A CONFERENCE NEAR YOU
o Windows Solutions '94 September 7-9
Bristol is demonstrating the Wind/U portability toolkit in
the Microsoft OLE Pavilion booth. Come by and say hello
to Kevin Blackwell and Mark LoSacco, see a demo, and
pick up a free copy of the Wind/U 2.0 White Paper.
Windows Solutions will be held in San Francisco's Moscone
Center.
o UNIX EXPO '94 October 4-7
Bristol is demonstrating Wind/U, HyperHelp, and Xprinter
at this year's UNIX EXPO in the New York City Jacob
Javits Center. A demonstration team will be giving demos,
answering questions, and handing out Bristol's traditional
Warhead candy. Try one if you dare!
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ABOUT BRISTOL
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ONE SOURCE IS ALL YOU REALLY NEED.
Bristol Technology Inc. was founded in 1990 with the vision of
enabling software developers to market Windows and UNIX versions of
their products from a single source code base. A key aspect of this
vision is Bristol's goal of providing complete coverage of the Windows
API on UNIX platforms through the Wind/U portability toolkit. In
addition to Wind/U, Bristol products such as HyperHelp, the on-line
help standard, and Xprinter, the PostScript and PCL language library,
bring Windows-like on-line help and printing capabilities to UNIX.
Bristol is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The company
sells and distributes software products worldwide through the
Ridgefield, CT office and other distribution partners.
Wind/U is a registered trademark and The Portability Times, HyperHelp,
and Xprinter are trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. All product
and company names are the property of their respective owners. The
Portability Times may be distributed freely provided it is not altered
in any way and this notice is included. Copyright (c) 1994 Bristol
Technology Inc.
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Bristol Technology Inc.
241 Ethan Allen Highway
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-6969 Fax: 203-438-5013
Email: info -at- bristol -dot- com
WWW: http://www.bristol.com
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