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Subject:Re: Developing Online Help for Windows by Boggan From:Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 23 Oct 1995 09:39:00 PDT
>Hi, many of you recommended Developing Online Help for Windows by Scot
>Boggan as the best source in hardcopy for creating help files. My bookstore
who >goes through a major northeast distributor can't get the book. Are any
of you in
>the Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Maine area? Where did you get the book or
>what bookstore would you recommend?
>Thanks! - Suzanne
While I can't recommend a bookstore, I can say that DOLH is back in print
and available through Int'l Thomson in the US and Nelson in Canada. I talked
to both of them about 3 months ago and they assured me that there was no
problem getting copies; I don't know if this has changed. Details:
Developing On-Line Help for Windows, by Scott Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe
Wellinske. (International Thomson Press, 2nd printing 1995). ISBN
1-85032-219-8. $39.95 US. (Contact (US) Int+l Thomson Press at
1-800-842-3636 or (Can) Nelson Canada at 1-800-268-2222. Contact David
Farkas at farkas -at- u -dot- washington -dot- edu -dot- )
Greg
Gregory Keith
Technical Writer
Symantec/Delrina Canada
Toronto, Ontario
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com
