From luke@stat.umn.edu  Mon Feb  2 14:44:45 1998
From: luke@stat.umn.edu (Luke Tierney)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:44:45 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Summary of mails concerning R help system -- really --
In-Reply-To: <x2iuqyuog7.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk> from "Peter Dalgaard BSA" at Feb 2, 98 02:27:20 pm
Message-ID: <9802021444.AA25205@nokomis.stat.umn.edu>

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> > MM> However, I agree with Luke Tierney, that also for windows, HTML should be
> > MM> enough in principle.
> > 
> > Especially now that I'm finished with supporting short filenames for HTML
> > conversion :-)
> 
> Yup. 
> 
> There are still two arguments remaining for doing the WinHelp thingie:
> 
> - Uniformity with other Windows application (if compiler vendors are
> shipping with HTML help, that point may be a bit moot, though.)
> 

The current Borland and Watcom products both still use WinHelp. But
Microsoft VC++, and I think their entire DevStudio, uses html with
Internet Explorer integrated into their development environments.
What impact, if any, current legal actions will have on this is
anyone's guess.

luke

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Summary of mails concerning R help system -- really --
Luke Tierney