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From: saunders_j@alb000.dnet.ge.com (Jonathan S. Saunders)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Multi-Platform Help Systems
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Date: 20 Apr 91 18:10:09 GMT
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Anne Dolce writes:

 > Hi!  For all of you out there who are developing
 > windowing system applications for multiple platforms,
 > I'd be interested in knowing what you're doing for
 > a hypertext help system.
 > 
 > What we're looking for is a hypertext help system
 > that will run on X/Motif, MS-Windows, and the Mac.
 > This issue here is that we really only want to enter
 > our help text once (not once for each plaform) and
 > have a help user interface that looks the same on
 > all platforms.

Please also send responses to me... I''m very interested in
hearing the answers to this question too!

    ttfn,   ^. .^
  jonathan  ==`==

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