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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Barefoot [SMTP:dbarefoot -at- MPS-CANADA -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:19 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: ReadMe files - Format?
>
> Q: We develop software for the Windows environment. I'm wondering what
> format people put their release notes in?
>
[snip]
> Management,
> understandably, is not willing to do away with the text format quite yet.
> Have others changed completely to html? Have it been considered?
>
I don't do release notes or readme.txts personally (they're done by the
engineers). However, in a number of Windows-based applications, I've also
seen readmes done in Windows Write format. (Remember that dinky little word
processor that shipped with Windows 3.x?) It makes sense - Write gives you
enough formatting flexibility to make attractive documents, and software
capable of reading .wri files is standard equipment in any Windows
installation (although Write doesn't ship with Win95/98, it has been
replaced with WordPad, which can load Write files).
Take care,
Scott
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Scott McClare - Technical Writer
DY 4 Systems Inc., Kanata, Ontario, Canada
(613) 599-9199 x502 smcclare -at- dy4 -dot- com
Opinions are my own
