Chapter 11 Creating Help Files with HELPMAKE

If you've used the Programmer's WorkBench (PWB) or one of the Microsoft Quick languages, you already know the advantages of online help, or the Microsoft Advisor. The Microsoft Help File Maintenance utility (HELPMAKE) lets you extend these advantages by customizing the help files supplied with Microsoft language products, or by creating your own help files for them.

HELPMAKE translates help text files into a help database accessible within these environments:

Microsoft Programmer's WorkBench (PWB)

Microsoft QuickHelp utility

Microsoft CodeView debugger

Microsoft Editor version 1.02

Microsoft QuickC compiler versions 2.0 and later

Microsoft QuickBasicÔ versions 4.5 and later

Microsoft QuickPascalÔ version 1.0

Microsoft Word version 5.5

This chapter describes how to create and modify help files using the HELPMAKE utility.