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Helpful Solutions |
“Tools for the Online Help Professional” |
Paul A. O'Rear |
Welcome to the Helpful Solutions Home Page!
What is Helpful Solutions?
Helpful Solutions provides consultation and custom software solutions for Online Help authors and developers.
Helpful Solutions clients and contributions:
- Helpful Solutions has worked largely in cooperation with Sageline Publishing and its proprietor William Meisheid in producing Online Help for various agencies (cf. Sageline Publishing's web site) and has contributed to many of Sageline Publishing's products including the powerful new online help indexing tool - Windexer 1.0.
- Helpful Solutions is responsible for discovering and documenting some of WinHelp 3.1's undocumented macros; in particular ExtInsertItem() and ExtInsertMenu(). (cf. Windows/DOS Developer's Journal, Vol.5, No.12, December 1994: “More Undocumented WinHelp Macros” by Jim Mischel)
- Helpful Solutions provides online consultation in the Help Authoring Forum of CompuServe (GO HYPERTEXT) where Paul O'Rear functions as SysOp for the Under the Hood section.
- Helpful Solutions has done a fairly thorough disassembly of the WinHelp 4.0 viewer (WINHLP32.EXE) for exploratory and consultation purposes.
- Helpful Solutions has discovered several undocumented features of the WinHelp 4.0 viewer (WINHLP32.EXE) and hopes to publish an article on this in the near future.
Genealogy Pages
The links below serve as both an example of current Online Help technology and a service to Paul O'Rear's kin.
Click here to view the O'Rear Family Sketches using the new HTML Help standard developed by Microsoft. (Requires Internet Explorer 3.01 or above.)
Click here to view the O'Rear Family Sketches with a browser that supports frame sets. (Compatible with Netscape 2.0 or above.)
Contact Information:
Paul A. O'Rear
Helpful Solutions
47 S. Baltimore St.
Dillsburg, PA 17019
ph: 717.432.8424
email: pao@sageline.com
Click here to send email to Paul O'Rear/Helpful Solutions!