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Subject:Authoring help on NT (J. Campana's question) From:Patrick O'Connell <patricko -at- EICON -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 7 Mar 1995 13:10:00 PST
Jackie Campana asked what applications are available for authoring help on
Windows NT.
I don't see why one couldn't use any 16-bit Win 3.1 package, Word-based or
not, to author help for NT. At present the NT help engine only differs from
the 3.1 one in that:
1) It is a 32-bit program.
2) Full-text searching DLLs a la Viewer 1's are built right into the
NT operating system. If you check, you'll see that all of the NT system
helpfiles have FTS enabled (and all use the same FTS index file, actually).
To the best of my knowledge the format of NT help files *is* the format of
3.1 help files: there's no difference.
Pat
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