The end of the road for ForeHelp

[aoslick -at- hteinc -dot- com]

Help authoring tool (HAT) users may want to know that ForeFront announced 
today, Jan. 2, that it is "closing its doors" effective January 10, 2002.  
It is passing its technologies to ComponentOne.  For the announcements, see 
http://home.componentone.com//ff.htm

My firm is still using ForeHelp 3.0, which is designed to work with 
Micosoft's Windows 3.1/95 WinHelp.   We've been happy with the product.   
As we are planning to put help info on-line, on a server rather than on 
each client, I was about to talk up our upgrading to ForeHelp 5.0, which 
adopted WinHelp and the Windows 98/2000 Help 1.x standard. A product 
compatible with Help 2.x (not ForeHelp 5) would provide support for XML and 
DHTML.

A tip of the HAT to a solid product, 

Regards, Alan Oslick
aoslick -at- hteinc -dot- com 

P.S. I had queried ForeFront as to whether they planned to release a 
ForeHelp version that would incorporate the prospective Microsoft Help 2.x 
standards.  Their response, a notice of their demise.  And, oh yes, I 
checked with Eric before posting this message to ensure that this message 
wouldn't be regarded as an advt.

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