Name for bottom-line help

Subject: Name for bottom-line help
From: Mark Levinson <mark -at- CRABAPPLE -dot- BITNET>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 09:40:32 IDT

Microsoft's "The Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide" refers
first to the message bar, saying...

"The message bar is an optional component at the bottom of an active window
that lets an application request information from the user or display status
information about a selection, a command, or a process. The message bar is
also a convenient place to explain menu and control bar items as the user
highlights each item (...) and to display help information."

Then the book refers to the status bar, saying...

"A more elaborate form of the message bar is the status bar (...), an
optional window component that displays information about the current
state of the application.
In addition to brief messages, the status bar may include information such
as the current cursor location and any current keyboard-initiated modes
for selection (for example, Extend mode) and typing (for example,
Overtype and Caps Lock)."

Any misprints above are mine.
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