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Article #437Please HLP me with help file formats
From: phys169
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:50
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:50
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How do you create help files (.HLP) for MSDOS 5? What format are they? (Are they the same as, or at least compatible with, Windows 3.X help files?). There seem to be several programs that use help files with this same extension, but I suspect they are incompatible. Ideally I'd like to create help files for my programs that can be read by the same utility that reads system help files, so users don't need to know where a utility came from to know how to find out help about it. Failing that, I'd like to create a help utility that can read the main standard help file formats, so any information on file formats (even text file style conventions) would be very helpful.... AdvTHANKSance, Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury.
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