Microsoft Corp Windows-under-Unix start-up Bristol Technology Inc, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is gearing up to announce HyperHelp 2.0, its unbundled, on-line Unix/X Window help facility next month, and hopes it will become an industry standard. It is a hypertext-based facility for Motif and Open Look, and new features include FrameMaker file support, a new Open Look viewer, PostScript support, multimedia capability and Windows 3.1 help compatibility. The upgrade also includes a single-function application programming interface to help developers add HyperHelp to their applications. Pricing is $4,000 for a binary licence, $25,000 for source code. HyperHelp is used by Lotus Development Corp, Autodesk Inc, Bell Labs, BBN Software, Intel Corp, Merrill Lynch & Co and internally at Boeing Co and EDS.
