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- === Int2TPH Interrupt List Compiler v0.9 (C) 1996 Slava Gostrenko ===
-
-
- Introduction.
-
- This program converts Ralf Brown's Interrupt List into Borland Turbo Help
- File (.TPH file format) to use it with Turbo Help TSR or within Borland
- (Turbo) Pascal IDE.
- Int2TPH uses hypertext features of the Interrupt List. It is the first
- (and the only) Interrupt List compiler that makes a real hypertext of the
- Interrupt List. It is made possible due to an advanced pattern processing
- technique used in the compiler.
- Not only it creates comprehensive indexes for all the topics in the list
- but it also allows users to add their own indexes to the help file.
-
-
- Usage.
-
- Unpack all the Interrupt List and Int2TPH files into one directory. Make
- sure that there is at least 13Mb of free space left on the drive. You may
- need up to 17Mb of free space if you computer has less than 5Mb of RAM. Try to
- free up to 4Mb of XMS memory (BIOS provided XMS suites as well as the memory
- provided by himem or any other XMS driver). The rest of the RAM may be used
- for disk caching provided by any disk cache driver or operating system you
- have.
- Int2TPH is a protected mode (DPMI) program. So it is assumed that you
- have alredy configured RTM (DPMI Runtime manager that comes with Borland
- Pascal). In fact the actual configuration (with the help of DPMIInst program)
- is required if you have a 286 class computer. Otherwise it is only required
- that RTM.EXE and DPMI16BI.OVL can be found using PATH environment variable.
- Run Int2TPH. After a while it will create Inter.TPH file that is the help
- file you've been waiting for.
-
- To use the help file within Borland Pascal IDE click Help->Files...->New
- and enter the help file name.
- To use the help file with Turbo Help TSR run THelp.Com with the help file
- name passed as a parameter using /f option of THelp. The command line may look
- like this:
- THelp /fInter.TPH
-
-
- Note.
-
- The main index of the Interrupt List (that is generated on Shift-F1) is
- too large for THelp. To solve this problem run Int2TPH with the /ShortIndex
- option. Borland Pascal IDE works fine with the default extended main index
- version.
-
-
- User defined idexes.
-
- To define your own index edit Int_Keys.Txt file. It is a list of user
- defined key words that are used for indexing. Each word in the list is
- searched in the Interrupt List topics. All the topics containing given key
- word will be listed in the separate index topic. The key word used for
- indexing will be the name of the topic.
-
-
- Technical notes.
-
- While running Int2TPH creates 2 temporary files. Int2TPH.Swp is the main
- swap file for virtual memory. Topics.Swp is the swap file for the Interrupt
- List topics. Temporary files are deleted on the normal termination of the
- program.
- The Incomplt.Log file is a log of the ambiguous search pattern
- applications. Normaly you don't need this file.
- While running Int2TPH displays it's current status and may display error
- messages. I've debugged Int2TPH to run well on the Interrupt List Release 50
- and added lots of error checks to the program to make it easier to find the
- incompatabilities of the compiler's algorithms and new releases of the
- Interrupt List. So let me know if you have a newer version of the Interrupt
- List that is compiled with errors.
-
-
- E-Mail me anytime you wish and don't forget to visit my homepage at
- http://sunny.aha.ru/~gw/ (read http.www file included in this package)! ;-)
-
-
- Author: Slava Gostrenko
- E-Mail: gw@aha.ru
- WWW: http://sunny.aha.ru/~gw/ <- Latest versions and info are here
- FidoNet: 2:5020/201.105, 2:5020/468.105
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