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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Writing Windows Help Files
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.014649.355@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
References: <1991PMWed.09.8666@dircon.uucp> <70050@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 01:46:49 GMT
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>| John R. Burgoyne <burgoyne@eng.umd.edu> writes:
>|> Has anyone successfully created other than trivial .RTF files using
>|> something other than one of the Word family of word processors?

> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>| Indeed, the RTF format is ASCII, but there it's RIDICULOUS to think of
>| writing real help documents (100-200K) in RTF by hand!  Right now, I 
>| think WfW is the best bet.

Jim ADCOCK <jimad@microsoft.UUCP> writes:
> After suggesting MSWorks as one option, I realized there is an even 
> cheaper way for people to get their feet wet making small RTF documents:
> namely get a copy of TryWord -- the "working model" of WfW.  [...]
> $10 from MS

And yet another option: Ami Professional is now available for $129 with the
disk or manual page from Word, WordPerfect, MultiMate or few other word
prcessors.  (I never thought I'd suggest a Lotus product on the net...)
It supports RTF, and I briefly entertained the idea of getting a copy
myself, but non-MDI apps are really annoying!  :)  I'll stick with WfW...

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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