>>And somehow I hate the modern help system. VFP is fine, I can deal with man pages, but the web based stuff MS is presenting I'm not warm with.
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>It's not the medium, it's the message. Office help was just as ridiculous when it was in the .hlp and .chm format. Imagine that help for excel 2003 didn't know what rgb function is... it did mention it in examples elsewhere, just didn't know that it has specific help for it. Nowadays it's not just help, it's just about any msdn/kb article out there that's almost content free, where 90% of the text consists of legalese ("applies to products" etc) and the rest is carefully wrapped in an alegoric language where they never call spade a spade, so yes, it's an exercise in frustration. There's a whole biocoenosis off MVPs and other gurus helping people wade through that jungle. Again, it's not the medium, it's the content.
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Function follows form. [eg] The medium is not as good as chm files where. Or at least the way it is implemented. About the so called contend. Ja. Michels rules don't let me express it.

Grown up with copies of copies of manuals, Turbo Pascal 4 was a wonder. I lost track after MS skipped chm files. Somewhere I have a copy of MSDN to VS 6, this was working too. From there it grows worst.