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- <HTML><H1>Microhelp</H1>
-
- Microhelp is a simple hypertext help system. You can click on the parts of
- the text highlighted in blue to get help on a particular topic. This file
- contains help on:
-
- 1. <a href="#menu">Microhelp’s menu</a>
- 2. <a href="#licence">Copyright & Licence conditions</a>
- 3. <a href="#whattodo">What to do if you want to write Microhelp for your own applications</a>
-
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-
- <a name="menu"><H1>Menu Options</H1></a>
-
- <a href="#back">Back</a>
- <a href="#export">Export ⇨ As Text</a>
- <a href="#exporthtml">As HTML</a>
- <a href="#newview">New View</a>
- <a href="#contents">Contents</a>
- <a href="#index">Index</a>
- Info
- <a href="#quit">Quit</a>
-
-
- <a name="back">Back</a> - takes you back to the previous page. You can
- also do this by clicking with adjust on the close icon of
- the window.
-
- <a name="export">Export</a> - Drops the current page into your editor. You must have either
- Zap, Edit or StrongEd loaded for this to work. Choose 'As Text'
- if you want to print, save or search the file.
-
- <a name="exporthtml">Export</a> as- This is used for debugging your help pages as you write them.
- HTML
-
- <a name="newview">New View</a> - This opens a new view on the current page, starting a separate
- version of Microhelp to do so. You can iconise help windows
- (shift-close) to leave bookmarks on your backdrop.
-
- <a name="contents">Contents</a> - Loads the contents page if there is one.
-
- <a name="index">Index</a> - Loads the index page if one exists.
-
- <a name="quit">Quit</a> - To quit Microhelp just close the window. You don’t really need to
- use the Quit option on the menu.
-
- <a name="licence">Licence and Copyright</a>
- =====================
-
- This package is copyright Andy Southgate 1995, but there are no restrictions
- on it’s distribution. You may use this application and code as you wish, and
- it may be freely distributed with any software.
-
- <a name="whattodo">Writing your own help pages</a>
- ===========================
-
- If you’d like to write your own Microhelp pages you will find the relevant
- help pages in Gamesuite, which is available from hensa, stuttgart and most
- PD libraries. Be sure to ask for release 3.
-
- Andy Southgate.
- as142@cam.ac.uk
- 7th August 1995.
-