Ahh, but we aren't locked in to using multi-meg browser software
to read an HTML file.  I can't speak for Unix or MAC, but in the
PC world, more and more software applications are becoming
HTML-aware.  I wouldn't want to try surfing the web with Excel,
but it can display an html file and activate links.

So I guess my point is that you don't have to suspend the
application you are currently working in to load up a separate
program to view an HTML file.  Many can read it now and most
high level programs have - or soon will have - that capability
also.


Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Earl Truss
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 5:43 PM
>
> Yes, all of these are good reasons to use HTML files instead of HLP files.
> The only real problem with them is the size of the viewer needed
> to see the
> contents of the HTML files over the HLP viewer.   Maybe all we
> need to make
> this a good change is a small, simple browser that perhaps uses a
> subset of
> HTML that is standardized as being the minimum needed to support a good
> help file format.
>

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