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- HTML Help System for FreeDOS
- ============================
- Version 1.0.1
-
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- See also the files COPYING, BUGS and HISTORY.
-
- Contents
- --------
- 0 What's New
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Copyrights
- 3 Usage
- 4 Contacts
- 5 Building HTML Help Viewer
- 6 How to include new HTML files
- 7 HTML Tags supported by the Viewer
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- 0 What's New
- ------------
- The replacement help content is here!
- Included is:
-
- - A new version of the help viewer: version 5.2.1
- The command line access of help topics
- works faster, and 84-key keyboard support added.
- See HISTORY for a full list of changes.
-
- - the html file set, FreeDOS help (hhstndrd 1.0.1).
- Updated and Expanded.
-
- 1 Introduction
- --------------
- This is the FreeDOS clone of the MS-DOS 6.22 help command.
-
-
- 2 Copyrights
- ------------
- The HTML Help viewer is Copyright (c) Express Software 1998-2003,
- protected under the Express Software Public License Agreement (see the
- file COPYING).
-
- The HTML Help content is a set of many files with various copyrights.
- The license for most of them is the GNU Free Documentation License,
- the licenses for all others will be in the same spirit as the GNU FDL.
- See the file HELP\FDL.TXT.
-
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- 3 Usage
- -------
- To start the interactive help viewer (found in /bin) just type:
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- HELP
-
- and the contents page will be displayed. The standard set of html files
- can be browsed from here. To search for help on a particular
- topic, simply type:
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- HELP [topic]
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- You can give a file name:
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- HELP [filename]
- HELP /Lfilename
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- If the /L switch is generally faster; with /L help won't check whether
- the filename is a topic first. To completely override the /help folder,
- use the /O switch:
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- HELP /O[x:][path][filename]
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- For more information on using help, type
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- HELP help
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- or
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- HELP /?
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- 4 Contacts
- ----------
- The FreeDOS website:
- http://www.freedos.org
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- FreeDOS discussion list:
- fd-dev@topica.com
-
- The maintainer:
- Rob Platt (worldwiderob@yahoo.co.uk)
-
- The original developer of the viewer program:
- Joe Cosentino (onehardmarine@attbi.com)
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- 5 Building the HTML Help viewer
- -------------------------------
- The help.exe binary is included for those who do not wish to modify help.
-
- It was built with "Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS", MASM, and TLINK, and uses
- Borland's Make.
-
- TASMHELP.MAK is included for those with the TASM assembler, but this hasn't
- been tested for a bit. CONIO.OBJ should have been included with the source
- code, so it is not necessary for you to have an assembler unless you wish to
- modify the low level video (which is in conio.asm).
-
- HELP.PRJ is a "Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS" project file. This has been set up for
- debugging, and takes advantage of the debugging capabilities in the
- TC++ IDE. However, all release versions should be produced by compiling
- from the command line. This produces the most efficient code.
- Running RELEASE.BAT does this and cleans up the files correctly.
-
- RELEASE.BAT automatically runs the GNU indent program on the source code,
- to reformat it to the FreeDOS coding conventions. For this to work,
-
- Links to the indent program and public domain version of MASM can be
- found at:
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- http://projects.freedos.net/htmlhelp
-
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- 6 How to include new HTML files
- -------------------------------
- If you wish to contribute to the help files, write a translation etc,
- you should first make contact by mailing the FreeDOS discussion forum,
- fd-dev@topica.com or to the maintainer at worldwiderob@yahoo.co.uk
-
- There is a set of guidelines for authors in the html help content,
- listed under the miscellaneous section of index.htm.
-
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- 7 HTML Tags supported by the Viewer
- -----------------------------------
- You can get to the file:
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- HELP\HHSTNDRD\AUTHORS\TAGS.HTM
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- from the Authors' Resources section in the hhstndrd file set.
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