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- These files are included to ease the testing of the INT2WHLP program.
-
- It is suggested that the files are copied to a directory used only for
- this test, prefferably a subdirectory under the directory with the INT2WHLP
- files. The included INT2WHLP.CFG configuration file defines the current
- directory for both input and output. Thus, the compilation of the files is
- as easy as
- <path\>INT2WHLP [options]
- HC31 INTWIN
- where <path\> is the path to the INT2WHLP program, and [options] are
- options that can optionally be passed to INT2WHLP. The commands suggest
- that HC31.EXE is somewhere on the DOS path.
-
- Well, it's actually easier than that, because the batch file BUILD.BAT
- can pass up to 10 options to INT2WHLP, and then automatically start HC31.
- BUILD.BAT assumes that the test files are in a subdirectory under INT2WHLP's
- directory, so it uses "..\" for "<path\>". This can be changed by editing
- line 3 of BUILD.BAT. Then for example
- BUILD -1+ -t-
- will build a help file with single-entry interrupts listed in the main
- index, and with tables appearing in the main help window rather than in a
- secondary window, and
- BUILD -r40
- will build a help file where the tables are not separate topics (Interrupt
- List release 40 style).
-
- To ease the tests even further, the test package includes a Program
- Information File BUILD.PIF, which can request parameters and start
- BUILD.BAT from within Windows. Make an icon that starts BUILD.PIF with working
- directory = test directory, and another icon that runs <testdir>\INTWIN.HLP.
- This makes it very easy to compile with different options and start WINHELP
- to show the results. Exit WINHELP before a new compilation to avoid sharing
- conflicts.
-
- The files in this package are truncated files from the Interrupt List and
- tiny test files, and therefore INT2WHLP compiles them in a about one
- second, and the HC31 compilation takes only some seconds. This gives the
- user an easy way to experiment with fonts, font sizes, background colors,
- etc - use the NOTEPAD editor to edit the [CONFIG] section of INT2WHLP.CFG.
- For experiments with multi columns index, rename the file INTERRUP.LST
- to INTERRUP.A. This causes the file INTERRUP.B to be appended to the
- compilation, with rows and columns of index entries in a 4, 8, or 16 column
- index. The compilation time will be 3-4 times longer.
-
- The package demonstrates also the flexibility of the file inclusion
- facilities in the INT2WHLP program. The TEST-?.TXT files were created in a
- text editor and the TEST-?.RTF files were created in WINWORD and exported
- as RTF files. The index to the system included as "WINDOW 4" is in file
- TEST-1.RTF.
-
- Finally, the package can be used for experimenting with the SEL_TOPIC.RTF
- file, se the paragraph 'TO TEST THE "SEL_TOPC" WINDOW' in the INT2WHLP.CFG
- file included in this package.
-
- If INTERRUP.LST was renamed to INTERRUP.A, it would be a good idea to
- rename it back again after the experiments.
-
-