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    23-Jul-93 15:03:41
Fm: Ken Flesher 72520,412
To: roger cusson 73260,644
Roger: We came up with a solution for the "screen size" issue for the tutorial file: Windows Help. Try it…. You can use TrueType fonts for your text screens, and the text re-formats based on the actual window size, and isn't locked to any specific resolution. The screen re-paints much faster than AAWIN. You can "hyper-link" the AutoCAD screen graphics to a "key" word or phrase like: "Pick here to see the AutoCAD screen…". The file sizes are MUCH smaller, and the Help program is built right into Windows, so there's no extra program to install. The Help program has capabilities for searching, paging forward/backward, contents, etc. I'm not sure how to build a Help file, but I bet a message in one of the Windows Developers forums might provide an answer to this. I've heard that they're not very difficult (but that's all relative <g>) to make. Anybody know how this is done??? What do you think? Obviously, it's too late now to re-do your exercise, but the solution should be workable for future "tutorials" like this. -KLF