Re: MS help for Mac

Subject: Re: MS help for Mac
From: "Sue Heim, San Diego" <SueH -at- VISIO -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:15:38 -0700

You've not missed anything! The Microsoft Help engine for the Mac only
supports Windows 3.1 help files. They never modified the engine to
support Win 4.0 help. And yes, they *are* going the HTML Help route
(which is part of the reason they've not updated the engine).

Kind of a pain if you needed cross-platform compatibility *prior* to
HTML Help (and your Windows help was in 4.0)!!

...sue
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Sue Heim
Senior Online Engineer
Visio San Diego
619/596-5990 x326
mailto:SueH -at- visio -dot- com



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Carmichael [SMTP:chrisc -at- SYNERGYMICRO -dot- COM]
>Sent: Thursday, October 16, 1997 9:07 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: MS help for Mac
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>Hey, am I missing something here, but isn't Microsoft going the HTML
>route
>for the .hlp files now? Meaning, instead of compiling .hlp files, MS
>has
>went to the browser route -- as they have started with IE4.0.
>
> <<has anyone found the 'Easter Egg' in MSIE 4.0??>>
>
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