Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:42:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
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To: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, James Lefavour wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I must agree.  Due to the popularity of the WWW, and of the
> > GUI browsers that are out there, I recommend that all future
> > online documentation for OpenDOS (or anything else for that
> > matter) be distributed as HTML.  A normal browser could read it
> > then.  The only thing that really needs to be thought about is
> > how the compression/decompression of the HTML is going to work to
> > save space.  The browser will probably have to be modified to
> > accept a type something like:
> > 
> > Content-type: octet-stream/html-zip
> > 
> > Or something like that.  Then UNZIP is called transparently and
> > the page is viewed.
> > 
> > What does everyone else think? 
Sounds good to me, too.

> I think that this is a good idea - but I worry that we may not have 
> compatibility with existing apps - somehow, we are going to have to 
> support the winhelp formats - don't know how tho :-(

A year or two ago I heard of a program for viewing windows help files from
DOS.  I've looked for it a few times since then but I can't find it.  Does
anybody know if this exists or where to find it?  Thanks.