>But, you know, I see this topic come up all the time. Everyone wants
>documentation in some format other than the format it's provided in.
I'm partial to the printed docs. As long as I can order the latest version
from somewhere, I'll be happy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Format for API Docs
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>>> I'm curious. I've never heard of HELP format; what is it?
>>
>>I'm guessing he means Windows help format. Which would be nice for us
>>Windows users, but utterly useless for the Mac people out there.
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>
>The closest I could figure was WinHelp, too. But, yeah, I figured that it
would
>only help Windows people out there, and also -- as you said -- MS seems to
be
>moving away from it.
>
>
>I read some previously-unread postings in my inbox and noticed people
>recommending other things like Visual SlickEdit format. Isn't this also a
>Windows-only solution? I don't think that Palm has the time or resources
to
>provide documentation in platform-specific formats.
>
>
>But, you know, I see this topic come up all the time. Everyone wants
>documentation in some format other than the format it's provided in. If I
were
>an independant developer, I'd sure see a market opportunity here to provide
>software to translate documentation into different formats... :-)
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>
>>Personally, I'd settle for HTML. Besides, the help file format seems to
>>be gravitating towards html in newer versions of Windows.
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>
>Yeah, I think they've been doing this for a few years now. But isn't it a
weird
>form of HTML? Something that allows them to package up many "pages" into a
>single file and index them for quick access? I think I remember hearing a
furor
>at the time MSDN was moved over to this new, proprietary format and away
from
>the older, public WinHelp format. Has that changed? Is this packaged-HTML
>format now public?
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>
>-- Keith
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