Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:38:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Evan Dickinson <evand AT wsunix DOT wsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Window's help file reader for DOS
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 chuckh AT taconic DOT net wrote:

> A bunch of years ago we wrote a DOS based file reading program called "Ralph
> The Reader". Like "Ralph The Pretty Good Grocer," if Ralph couldn't read it,
> you probably could do without it. Ralph knew about ASCII, WordStar, and
> WordPerfect formats. Eventually we wrote a new generation called "Barb The
> Browser" which is now in the public domain. Barb reads those, plus .WRI and
> many PostScript formats, and can save anything she reads in ASCII format. I
> believe MS Help files are basically in a .WRI format. The source code is
> posted with the executables, so Barb could easily be extended to browse HTML
> formats too (sans links of course).
> Check it out: FTP to "ftp.crl.com" and look in "/ftp/users/ka/kansys".
> Chuck.

Unfortnately, Barb doesn't read Windows help files (I just tried).