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- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: pop-up help
- Summary: quikhelp.arc, customizable pop-up help pgm
- Date: 19 Jul 88 21:38:41 GMT
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- This is a memory-resident quick-help program. When invoked it
- looks at the screen for a word next to the cursor and if it has a
- description for that word, shows the description on the screen. The
- user can customize descriptions and words recognized.
-
- The program was written by Mark VanKekerix in 1988. Russ Nelson, who
- submitted it, comments as follows:
-
- [This is a] a user-defineable TSR Help system. The help that
- comes with it is fairly bogus. I hacked at tchelp (Turbo C
- help--a database of C functions&&prototypes) to get it into the
- form required by quikhelp, and it's enclosed as TC.QHP. It's not
- real great, but I'm happy with it. Maybe somebody will improve it
- and repost. And maybe we'll get lots and lots of on-line help
- guides written. I plan on writing one for TCDEBUG as it has no
- on-line help at all.
-
- -- R.D.
-