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Subject:Re: help! online help tools for From:Tammy Hale <tammyh -at- FGM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 21 Jun 1995 08:08:01 -0500
Can Hyperhelp be used to *create* help files in UNIX, or do you have to
start out with windows help files?
Tammy
tammyh -at- fgm -dot- com
>> Phil Block <pblock -at- EXECPC -dot- COM> wrote:
Do any tools exist to create help that can be
>>grafted onto an existing UNIX application? What are my options?
>>CD McLean replied (in part)
At the STC conference the only
>>vendor I could find that had a product allowing you to take your
>window's
>>help files to unix was Hyperhelp from bristol technology inc.
>>(203-438-6969).
And Mike Hiatt wrote:
>We have purchased the HyperHelp package from Bristol Technology and the
>prices quotes are correct. However, there is one inaccuracy. You may
>distribute the viewer to view the compiled help files free with your
>application. The software license includes all the technical
>restrictions, like not sending source code, but the viewer is basically a
>free run-time license application, as I understand it.
