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luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli) writes:

>As a C programmer I found the Norton  Guide very handy and usefull.
>I have an old release with a database for OS/2 1.0.

>I tried to run them on OS2 2.0 and they wont work. I tried to call
>the Italian distributor of Symantec and they told me they don't sell
>them any more.

>What happened to this product? Is it still available somewhere?

As best I can determine, Symantec never owned the Norton Guides product. 
Sometime around when Symantec took over Norton's other products the
Guides were sold to Simon and Schuster (the publishing house), which is
marketing them under the "Brady Software" logo...but still calling
them "Norton Guides".

I haven't tried them under OS/2 so I can't offer any advice there.  The
last time I bought one (perhaps 18 months back) they were still selling the
original engine with a marginally updated data base...and had taken out
some useful items from the assembler guide MASM.NG.  Useful but not
terribly impressive, especially with the large amount of memory required
for the engine and no support for XMS memory usage.

There are a couple of competing products (whose names escape me) for which
I've seen ads claiming the ability to use Norton Guides utilities.  You
might check with the European outlet for Programmer's Shop; I think they
carry these alternate online help products.

Joe Morris / MITRE