RE: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link

Subject: RE: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:24:47 -0400

Let's say we're looking for:
- The functionality and usability of WinHelp (at a minimum!)
- Stability, security, and accessibility over networks
- Future feature development and owner support
What's recommended?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Char James-Tanny
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:14 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link
>
> > So why the push to convert to something flawed and static? If you're
> > going to invest in a major Help system conversion, why not upgrade
> > to...?
>
> Don't think of it as a "push to HTML Help"...think of it as "get away
> from WinHelp". Once Microsoft deprecated WinHelp and held Vista Help
> back, the only Windows Help format that they could suggest is HTML
> Help.
>
> As always, folks can use any Help format for their output, many of
> which will work locally on Windows.
>

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