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Subject:Re: Annotations in WinHelp - Do they stay? From:Linda Castellani <castle -at- CRL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:50:31 -0800
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Diane Heald wrote:
> If a user adds an annotation to a WinHelp help file, will the annotation
> still be there when the help file is replaced a few months later by an
> updated help file of the same name?
In our experience, the annotation seems to be attached only to a
specific .hlp file. We used annotation to get feedback on topics from
different sources, and had to be careful to keep the two files matched up
when reading the annotations.
