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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows help format
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:23:08 +0100 
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John L Meyer writes:
> Has anybody translated the FAQ into a Windows help file?

You can convert any TexInfo format docs to winhelp format. The Allegro
FAQ tells how to do this for the Allegro docs, but the same thing will
presumably work for the djgpp FAQ:

  You need to download the makertf conversion utility 
  (ftp://ftp.coast.net/Coast/win3/winhelp/mkrtf104.zip), and the Windows 
  Help compiler (ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/HC505.EXE). 
  Make a temporary directory, copy the allegro.txi file from the 
  allegro/docs dir, and run the commands "makertf --no-warn allegro.txi 
  -o allegro.rtf -J allegro.hpj" followed by "hcp allegro.hpj". The 
  second command will give a lot of warnings, but they can safely be 
  ignored.

(note: this is very old info so those links may well be dead, but
if so a websearch will be sure to turn up copies of the files).

It is much easier, and usually looks prettier, to just use a web
browser to view the HTML docs, though. Even Microsoft have ditched
their custom help format in favour of HTML in recent versions of
their compiler!


	Shawn hargreaves.