From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 05:38:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00622 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 05:38:28 -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 FAA00615 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 05:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z1rrz-00068j-00; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:31:43 +0200 Message-ID: <19980730143143.A23584@cityip.co.za> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:31:43 +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> <19980730140746.A23525@cityip.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980730140746.A23525@cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 02:07:46PM +0200 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 14:07 SAT, Johann Visagie wrote: > > 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). Sorry to follow-up to my own posting, but I've come across a number of tools which look promising. Most interesting is the one described here: http://www.helpmaster.com/help/other/popudo.htm It is shareware :-(, but has a Linux version (that may run under emulation), and can apparently read and write a plethora of file formats, including WinHelp. -- 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