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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:07:46 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bill Jolitz's book
Message-ID:  <19980730140746.A23525@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <19980730203003.O7830@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 08:30:03PM %2B0930
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>

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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

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