From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 05:08:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27944 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 05:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA27939 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 05:08:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z1rUo-000683-00; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: <19980730140746.A23525@cityip.co.za> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:07:46 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bill Jolitz's book Mail-Followup-To: Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01e901bdba66$05ad0ea0$16396464@rommy.indosat.co.id> <19980729144728.36526@supersex.com> <19980730172341.F7830@freebie.lemis.com> <19980730113326.E22971@cityip.co.za> <19980730203003.O7830@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980730203003.O7830@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 08:30:03PM +0930 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 at 20:30 SAT, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > Any idea what format it is? Maybe someone here can convert them. If in > > doubt, send me a sample. I have various MS OSes and abom^H^H^H^Happs > > installed around here. > > IIRC the extension is .hlp. Any Microsoft Windows operating system > understands them, apparently. If you like, I can put some up on the > web site and you can play with them. Recall that this is copyrighted > information, so it's purely to help me read them. That sounds like an ordinary Windows help file. Because of the hypertext-like nature, it would be almost impossible to convert it to any other format manually. I don't know offhand of any tools that can convert .hlp files to another format (though I'm still looking). However, if anyone is willing to take up the challenge of writing one ;-), this page offers information on the internal format of .hlp files: http://www.wotsit.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?windows -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message