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- HPC2HDK
-
- Version 1.0 24-5-93
-
- (C) 1993 Yaniv Golan All Rights Reserved
-
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-
-
- Purpose
- -------
- HPC2HDK is a convertor which takes the *.TXT files used by HelpPC version
- 2.10 and creates HDF files which are meant to be compiled with helpC - part
- of the HelpDK package.
-
- HelpPC is a sharware program written by David Jurgens - it's a hypertext
- browser with quite a lot of usefull information for DOS / PC programmers.
-
- HelpDK is a sharware package written by Ron Loewy. It's a compiler which
- creates help files for various platforms (MS Windows, DesqView/X, Borland's
- IDEs, QuickHelp and others) from a single source file.
-
-
- How to use?
- -----------
- Typing HPC2HDK without parameters will produce the following help screen:
-
- HPC2HDK 1.0 By Yaniv Golan (C) 1993
-
- Converts HelpPC files to HelpDK files.
-
- USAGE: HPC2HDK [<files list> | <@listfile> ] [options]
-
- files list is a list of the source files seperated by spaces and
- with .TXT assumed as extension unless otherwise specified.
- Alternativly, if @listfile is used, listfile be a text file containing
- on each of it's lines the name of a source file.
-
- Options :
-
- /C<corrections file> - the name of a text file containing a list
- of corrections to the source files.
- /O<main output file> - the name of the main index file that will
- be created. Default is HELPPC.HDF.
-
-
-
- The corrections file is a file which is needed to solve some mistakes
- in the HelpPC database such as incorrect or missing links. The format
- of this file is very simple - each line should contain two enteries
- seperated with a colon (':'). The first one is the link as it appears
- in the source files, and the second one is the link as it should appear
- in the generated files. For example, the following line :
-
- device commands:device command codes
-
- means that each occourence of the link 'device commands' in the source files
- should be replaced with a reference to the topic 'device command codes'.
-
- The file 'difile' contains all the corrections needed to compile the
- original HelpPC database. If you have added your own files to the data
- base, you can add enteries to this file if neccessary.
- Each correction and missing link will produce a warning during the
- conversion. At the end of the conversion of the original HelpPC database,
- the convertor should report a total of 81 warnings. If such is the case,
- then the conversion was succesfull.
-
- The file 'helppc.lst' contains the list of the files found in the
- original HelpPC package. Edit it so that it contains the correct path
- to the files on your disk if they are not in the correct diretory.
- Notice that the output files will be created in the current directory.
-
- Use the batch file DOHELPPC.BAT to compile the database using the default
- settings. Make sure that 'difile' and 'helppc.lst' are in the same
- directory, and that 'helppc.lst' is correct.
-
- Bugs (there are non ofcourse), corrections and suggestions can be
- sent to me through email at s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il or
- through snail mail to :
-
- Golan Yaniv
- P.O.B 442
- Technion City, HAIFA 32000
- ISRAEL
-
- Please note that the resulting HDF files are meant to be compiled with
- helpC version 4.0 and above.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
- Standard disclaimer apply. Use it at your own risk. Up till now this
- program didn't reformat the hard disks it was tested on, but David Yum
- already proved that this cannot be relied on.
-
-
- Credits
- -------
- MS Windows and QuickHelp are trademarks of Microsoft corp.
- DesqView/X is a trade mark of Quartdeck.
-
- Major credits should go to David Jurgens for his highly usefull program.
-
- The same goes for Ron Loewy, whose helpC compiler greatly simplifies writing
- help screens for all those wiered formats, and whose computer was busy
- for a long time doing beta for this program while this program was doing
- beta for his helpC :-)
-