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Aug 21, 1999, 6:32pm

I'm starting work on my documentation for my BOT, and was wondering if I
should do the base of it in HTML, or if I should write it in HLP. Any
comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Andon Coleman


Programmer
R&D

Nothing, Inc.

Dec 7, 1999, 10:09pm

> If you are looking to create higher level documentation then you must ask
> yourself who your audience is. If it is us web oriented developers then HTML
> would rock, if it is some business exec then I would choose word or its
> equivalents. I don't think I would ever choose MS .hlp files. Which are html
> based now anyway but they don't seem to supply an interface that I like.

Windows help files (.HLP) are NOT HTML-based. Microsoft added support for
Compiled-HTML Help files (.CHM). An example of this is the Microsoft Developer
Network Library (MSDN). Realize that with HTML files, you can provide any
interface you want. I have never worked with the new HTML help before, so I am
not sure how extensible it is. I would think that Microsoft learned from their
mistake with the old Help files. (Rich text, RTF, is not the easiest to work
with. :-P).


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