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WELCOME TO Help Edit V1.9 FOR WINDOWS
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This README file contains important, and last minute information about
Help Edit V1.9
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. What is Help Edit
2. How to Get Help
3. Installation
4. Important Notes
5. Files on the Disk(s)
6. Why Register?
7. Supporting Programs.
8. Other Products from Aciran Software
1. What is Help Edit
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Help Edit is a Windows Text Editor that you can use to produce Windows
Help files. Help Edit accepts simple ASCII files, allows you to create
Windows Help Topics, and finally produce an RTF (Rich Text Format) file for
input to the Microsoft Help Compiler. You can create Hypertext links, pop up
definitions, browse sequences, and include Bitmaps in your help file. Help
Edit supports the inclusion of various Fonts and Colours.
Help Edit manages all aspects of automatically generating jump labels, and
it even creates the HPJ project file required by the Help Compiler.
Once you have created your RTF files, Help Edit can call the Help compiler
from within itself, to produce an HLP help file. Finally Help Edit can test
the new Help file for you.
The Help file for Help Edit was written using itself, and so was the Tutorial.
All the Help material for a Demo help file is included so that you may study
it. In the registered version all the material for Helpedit Help and the
Tutorial Help are included.
2. HOW TO GET HELP
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If you have any problems, please read this file, and if you still have a
question and need assistance, help is available from the following source:
Write to me at the following address:
James Herron
29 Duncryne Place,
Bishopbriggs
Glasgow G64 2DP
Scotland
UK.
Alternatively call me on 041 762 0967 between 6pm and 9pm Mon - Fri, or any
time at Weekends (within reason!). Answering machine available.
If you have a modem you can leave me a message on the ShareWare Support BBS
in the UK on (0442) 891109 (3 lines). This BBS has a link to the Runway BBS
in the US on 215-623-6203.
Alternatively log on to a local BBS that echos FIDO or ILINK and leave me
a message in one of the following conferences:
FIDO
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Shareware (fido)
Windows (fido)
Windows Programming (fido)
ILINK
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Shareware (Ilink)
Windows Application Development (Ilink)
If you are on Compuserve or CIX you can Email me at
herron@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk
This is on the JANET network but can be accessed via internet and
Compuserve.
To access internet you may have to make modifications such as:
>INTERNET:herron@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk
which I BELIEVE is the correct format from Compuserve.
3. INSTALLATION
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There are two options for installation:
1. Hard Disk - This option allows you to copy all the files without
worrying about disk space. It allows faster program operation and is
recommended if you have a hard disk.
2. Single Floppy - It is perfectly feasible to run Help Edit from a single
floppy drive. In this case it is recommended that only the essential
files that you need are copied onto this disk.
You should read the rest of this README file to get further
information about this release before you do the installation.
To perform the installation insert the floppy in drive A or B and run
INSTALL from Windows.
This completes installation, you should now put your original disk(s) in a
save place. Start Windows and either run Help Edit from the Program Manager by
opening the File menu and selecting Run, or better still if you installed a
new group for Help Edit during install select it's icon for the application.
Please refer to the section in the online help on how to set up HC.BAT to
run with your version of the Help Compiler.
If you have the spell checker DLL Spelmate, either install it in the same
directory as Help Edit, or in a directory on your Path. Help Edit will look
for Spelmate on start up, and if it is found it will be available. Note that
Spelmate is a separate product, and it is not essential in order to run
Help Edit.
The current version of spelmate is V1.1, and is available on all good BBS's
and Compuserve as SPMATE11.zip.
4. IMPORTANT NOTES
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o The Executable, Help and a few Document files in this package are
compressed. If you don't use the installation program or you need to
copy one of the original files onto your hard disk, use the UNPACK.EXE
file located on the distribution disk. This is a Windows application.
o As mentioned in the installation section,if you are running from a single
drive then you should only copy the essential files required to run Help
Edit. This means leaving off any *.doc files, and once you have run the
examples you could remove them also.
o At the time of writing the MicroSoft Help Compiler is available for
download from Compuserve, and as a free download from the MicroSoft
download service. It has been placed in the Public Domain.
o To make help files for the widest range of users, the help complier for
Windows 3.0 should be used as it is compatible with Windows 3.1. The
3.1 complier will not work under Windows 3.0. Therefore a v3.0 help
compiler is included. The Batch file HC.BAT calls this compiler, HC30.exe
and also redirects output messages to a file Helpedit.err.
o If you have a Windows 3.1 Help compiler you can set the Windows 3.1
checkbox when making a help file. You may have to edit HC.BAT to tell it
the name of your help compiler. HC.BAT has been set up to work with the
Help compilers HC30.EXE and HC31.EXE as supplied by Borland compilers.
o IMPORTANT refer to the online Help information about HC.BAT.
5. FILES ON THE DISK(S).(Registered Version)
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Note: File names that end in a $ indicate a compressed file.
Disk 1
INSTALL EXE - Windows Install Program
INSTALL INF - Windows Install Script file
UNPACK EXE - Unpack Utility.
README DOC - This file
HELPEDIT EX$ - Registered version of Help Edit program for Windows
without unregistered copy notices.
HELPEDIT HL$ - Help File for and written by Help Edit.
TUTORIAL HL$ - Help File for Tutorial written by Help Edit.
DEMO * - All the files needed to make the Demo
HC BAT - Batch file to call help compiler
HC PIF - Windows Pif File for Help Compiler
Disk 2
HC30 EX$ - Microsoft Help Compiler for Windows 3.0
HC31 EX$ - Microsoft Help Compiler for Windows 3.1
HC31 ER$ - Error messages for HC31.EXE.
TUTORIAL * - All the files needed to make the Tutorial
HELPEDIT * - All the files needed to make the Helpedit Help.
*.BMP - Sample Bitmaps
*.DOC - Sample Help Document files
*.HLP - Sample Help Files
*.HPJ - Sample Help compiler Project files
*.PRJ - Sample Help Edit Project files
*.SHG - Sample Segmented Bitmap
*.TXT - Sample Help Text Files.
Professional Version.
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If you order the professional version which includes the Spell checker
Spelmate DLL then you will have the additional files Spelmate.dl$ and either
MainUK.di$ or MainUS.di$ depending on whether you requested the British or
American version.
The above listing is for 5.25 (360K) disks only. If you request 5.25 (1.2M)
or 3.5 (720K) you will only get one disk containing all the files.
NOTE: The Microsoft Help Compiler is copyright by Microsoft but has been
placed in the Public Domain. It is supplied for completeness, but no charge
is made or implied for it's use. The registration fee is only for Help Edi