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#What should HELP do?

    11-Apr-89 15:57:18
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: John Draper 76703,4322
continuation…. If the mouse is outside the current window…you get generic help with the program in the current window. If the mouse is on an object in the current window…fine, if you want…give them context sensitive help with that. If you've got a stack of reports on your desk and are working on them…where is the report you're working on? I ceratinly hope it's on top where you can see what you're doing. If you suddenly decide you want help on a report in the middle…don't you think you should at least pull that report out and put it on top so you can see what you're doing? If you're in an office taking to Joe, and suddenly want to talk to Bill…do you yell across the room, or do you go over to Bill's workspace and talk to him? I realize that the above aren't exact examples, because I know of no exact examples of mouse position vs keyboard key similarities in real life…but the above are close. Don