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From: wallis@sieras.enet.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: BC++ 2.0 and Help Compiler
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Date: 16 Apr 91 19:06:38 GMT
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Well, I just recieved the Help Compiler for Windows from Borland also. It sure
seems unusable for me. Why? Because it seems to want to deal with files in Rich
Text Format (RTF) for all the formatting commands. The documentation says that
you can use one of three different word processors for it:

1) Word for DOS
2) Word for Windows
3) Word for MAC

(I didn't say they were very different ;-}). Now, I am using the system to
learn Windows programming and *not* to produce income. I have no desire to
purchase Word in order to do this. What other choices do I have?

BTW, maybe they call it Rich Text Format because it will make Microsoft rich?
:-(


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