Re: Hyper Text Help

> Re: Hyper Text Help
> There is a whole doc on hypertext help that explains it. Plus you can downloa
> the already made hypertext files off many boards.

Heh...  You know, way back when I first got Virtual Advanced (back when it had
just come out), it took me a while to figure out how to set up the Hypertext
files, but I did finally manage to figure it out on my own.  Personally I think
the internal hypertext thing sucks, as you can't set the keys to what you want
them to be (like Q to quit, etc)...it is always a number.  When I saw Bigjoe's
first post asking about the Hypertext, I went searching myself before I looked
at Steve's response...lol...  took me a while to find the answer, as I couldn't
exactly figure out how it went to each menu, then I used LIST.COM and listed
every file in my DATA\ directory until I finally found it (LOOKUP.1).  As far
as documents that came with VADV, there is nothing except for the single
paragraph that says:

(In the ADVAUX.EXE section, about 200 lines below the ADVAUX.EXE title)

"HELP x

Enter the HyperText HELP System (Default Help Files
Not Included). x indicates the number of the main help
file -- from 0 to 999 -- allowing you to have multiple
hypertext systems."

Which they didn't mention that the main help file is DATA\LOOKUP.x - So I had
started doing my menus way back when...  I need to update them, as I have
several things in my Hypertext that don't exist anymore (i.e. ChrisNET, Caller
ID Verifier, VGA Planets, RAGE Application).  But I'd kinda like to just write
my own Hypertext script instead - it would be very simple and short.  Just
making the .MNU files would take most of the time, which would be no different
than making the .HLP files.

ComputerWhiz


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