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Subject:Windows help file browser From:"John C. Reynolds, III" <70053 -dot- 2375 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Dec 1994 05:34:13 EST
Mick McMahon,
This is from my database of products and services that I think I
may someday be useful. It sounds like the product provides full
text search capability for Windows Help files (which I think they
should already have--but they don't; I have no great love for either
Windows or Microsoft), and more:
FORM NO.: 792 ENTRY DATE: 12-3-94 USER ID: John R.
PRODUCT CATEGORY: COMPUTER LEVEL OF INTEREST: 3
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Microsoft Windows helpfile search utility.
BRAND/TITLE/MODEL: "Help Browser" / by Oxford Computer Consultants (U.K.
company) / distributed in U.S. by Cascadilla Press
COST: $89.00 retail
VENDOR: Cascadilla Press (U.S. distributor)
VENDOR ADDRES/AGENT/PHONE/HOURS: Somerville, MA / 617-776-2370
NOTES: Help Browser, a utility, lets you find information in Windows 3.1
help files through mapping, viewing, or searching for any word or phrase
anywhere in the help file.
REFERENCE: BYTE magazine, December 1994, "Help for Help Files," "What's
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If you hear of any files that provide full-text search capability and
are available for the downloading, please let me (and this list)
know. I missed the recent post you referred to. Thanks!
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>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 08:15:00 AES
>From: "McMahon, Mick" <MMcMahon -at- VCRPMAP -dot- TELECOM -dot- COM -dot- AU>
>Subject: Full text search in WinHelp?
>I may have missed this thread, but can I do a full text search in a WinHelp
>file?
>A recent posting (since deleted-oops), listed files available on
>microsoft.com
>that gave full text search abilities. Is this only in MM viewer or will it
>work on WinHelp files? If so what were those files?
>TIA
>MikMak
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>Mick McMahon My opinions...
>Technical Writer ...no one else's.
>BISTEL Project
>Telecom Australia
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