Re: MS help for Mac

["Sue Heim, San Diego" <SueH -at- VISIO -dot- COM>]

You've not missed anything! The Microsoft Help engine for the Mac only
supports Windows 3.1 help files. They never modified the engine to
support Win 4.0 help. And yes, they *are* going the HTML Help route
(which is part of the reason they've not updated the engine).

Kind of a pain if you needed cross-platform compatibility *prior* to
HTML Help (and your Windows help was in 4.0)!!

...sue
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Sue Heim
Senior Online Engineer
Visio San Diego
619/596-5990 x326
mailto:SueH -at- visio -dot- com



>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Christopher Carmichael [SMTP:chrisc -at- SYNERGYMICRO -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Thursday, October 16, 1997 9:07 AM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: MS help for Mac
>
>Hey, am I missing something here, but isn't Microsoft going the HTML
>route
>for the .hlp files now?  Meaning, instead of compiling .hlp files, MS
>has
>went to the browser route -- as they have started with IE4.0.
>
>           <<has anyone found the 'Easter Egg' in MSIE 4.0??>>
>
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