BRISTOL TECHNOLOGY HYPERHELP 4 RELEASED

HyperHelp 4 Enhances FrameMaker Support, and Adds Dynamic Text Retrieval
and User Reporting

Ridgefield, Conn., June 20, 1994 - Bristol Technology Inc. (Bristol) today
announced HyperHelp 4, a major new release of the company's on-line UNIX
help product.  HyperHelp 4 combines support for every major documentation
tool with a flexible programming interface to produce the most advanced
and full featured on-line help tool in the UNIX marketplace.  HyperHelp 4
has added additional support for the advanced formatting capabilities of
FrameMaker and Interleaf.  Support of these powerful documentation tools,
along with new searching and printing capabilities, allows an even wider
use of HyperHelp as a complete on-line documentation delivery system.

HyperHelp 4 maintains cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft's WinHelp
by adding support for Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL).  DLLs enable
developers to extend the functionality of HyperHelp by adding data on the
fly and linking in additional graphics formats, and other multimedia
formats. 

"HyperHelp 4 reinforces HyperHelp as the industry standard for on-line UNIX
help," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology Inc. 
"HyperHelp 4 pushes beyond simple on-line help with its improved ability
to support such a wide variety of authoring tools, while maintaining all
the hyper-linking, printing, searching, and viewing functionality of
WinHelp." 

Key Enhancements

* Improved FrameMaker Support - HyperHelp now supports many new FrameMaker
features in MIF files, such as mid-topic jumps, conditional text,
variables, vector graphics, cross references, auto-generated hyperlinks
from the table of contents or index, buildtags, first/last page links, and
much improved WYSIWYG.  These enhancements allow writers to utilize
advanced FrameMaker features in their on-line help files. 

* User Extendible with DLLs - This enhancement allows users to extend
HyperHelp by adding their own DLLs, or shared libraries.  For example,
users can include uncompiled external data in a HyperHelp topic at
runtime, include new display formats in embedded Windows, or register DLL
functions as HyperHelp macros.  Developers benefit by being able to extend
their on-line help implementation by including additional text, data,
graphics, and other multimedia formats dynamically with the HyperHelp
Viewer. 

* User Reporting - This enhancement allows developers to log and time-stamp
all HyperHelp Viewer activity.  Developers can use the Viewer activity
information to determine where their end-users are having the most
difficulty with the application or the help files. 

* Improved Printing - This enhancement allows users to print a single
topic, multiple topics, or even an entire help file.  End-users benefit by
being able to graphically choose and print a combination of help topics,
or easily select and print the on-line help documentation in its entirety.


* Improved Find and Sort - This enhancement is an improvement to
HyperHelp's full text search functionality.  End-users benefit by being
able to quickly search for any word in a specific topic or throughout the
help document, then sort the result by the order of the topic, by the
number of occurrences, or alphabetically . 

* Additional Product Updates - The following substantially improve the
usability and functionality of HyperHelp:  (1) improved table support, (2)
Interleaf RTF support, (3) new audio macro, (4) Word 6.0 RTF support, and
(5) improved Microsoft Help compatibility. 

HyperHelp offers developers the most cost-effective method for including
on-line context-sensitive help functionality within their applications. 
The price for HyperHelp 4 remains $5,000 USD.  No royalties are charged
for including the HyperHelp Viewer with an application.  HyperHelp 4 is
available on Sun SPARC Solaris 1 and Solaris 2, HP700 HP-UX 9, IBM RS/6000
AIX, SGI IRIX, DEC Alpha OSF/1, and Intel SCO, SVR4.2, and Solaris 2. 

HyperHelp Bridge Updated

HyperHelp Bridge allows writers who author in FrameMaker or SGML editors to
quickly and easily produce help files that are used with the Microsoft
Windows Help facility.  HyperHelp Bridge translates HyperHelp help files
compiled from MIF and SGML sources into RTF files that are used as input
for Microsoft WinHelp.  Writers benefit by being able to keep just one
FrameMaker or SGML documentation source base for use with both HyperHelp
on UNIX and Microsoft WinHelp on Windows or Windows NT.  HyperHelp Bridge
maintains all on-line help attributes, including hyperlinks, pop-up
definitions, browse sequences, bitmaps, and macros. 

Company Information

Bristol Technology Inc. was founded in 1990 with the vision of developing
the Wind/U technology, which allows Microsoft Windows software developers
quick and cost-effective access to the UNIX System-based market.  Bristol
is a leading developer of graphical user interface development tools, such
as HyperHelp, the on-line help standard, and Xprinter for UNIX
System-based products.  Bristol is headquartered in Ridgefield,
Connecticut.

Bristol Technology
(203) 438-6969
email: info@bristol.com
WWW: http://www.bristol.com

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