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- Short: Browse+search compressed HTML docs
- Uploader: bsrogers@cobweb.com.au (Brendan Rogers)
- Author: bsrogers@cobweb.com.au (Brendan Rogers)
- Type: text/hyper
- Replaces: text/hyper/GetHelp.lha
- Version: 1.1
- Requires: OpenURL 2.0, LhA, MUI for SearchHTML
-
- GetHelp Description
- ===================
- The goal of this project was to make HTML format help documents easier to
- contend with on the Amiga. Suppose someone has constructed help documentation
- in HTML, complete with graphics, links to web sites, email addresses etc.
- What is actually a single document traditionally arrives as a multitude of
- smaller files - HTML pages and images.
-
- The end user doesn't need a bunch of small files, the browser does...
- Your filesystem will love you as you have cut down a multitude of small files
- into just one archive. GetHelp will unarchive and cache all the small files to
- Ram:T as you open them, then delete them when you've finished.
-
- The GetHelp system allows you to use an HTML document like an Amigaguide
- document - a single hypertext help file. Because its compressed, a GetHelp
- file will generally be much smaller than the equivalent Amigaguide file.
- Try constructing a '.help' file from an Amiguide document that has been
- converted to HTML using GuideML or equivalent tools. My PCDoom_FAQ.guide (386kB)
- has been trimmed to a PCDOOM_FAQ.help (222kB).
-
- Gethelp also opens the door for a comprehensive hypertext based help system on
- the Amiga, referencing each document with a single click and navigating in a
- browser environment - see the included examples!
-
- SearchHTML
- ----------
- All browsers allow simple text search of the currently displayed file.
- This release includes a global document search utility which will generate
- a list of files which match your search parameters.
-
- Installation and notes
- ----------------------
- There is no installer required for this installation, just follow the
- instructions in the HTML documentation. Take care to note the limitations
- section. Once GetHelp is installed and your browser configured, you will be
- able to access "GetHelp.help" from your browser instead.
-
- C Source for SearchHTML is included in the hope a C guru will critique /
- improve it for me!! Any suggestions welcome.(that goes for my arexx too!)
-
- History
- ========
- 1.1 - removed limitation on use of spaces in filenames and paths
- - REALLY included SearchHTML executable this time(sorry!)
-
- 1.0 - second aminet release
- - handles .htm suffix as well as .html
- - includes SearchHTML utility
-
- 0.9 - incorporated OpenURL2.0 to simplify and shorten the script
-
- 0.8 - modified arguments to lhA command for better compatibility
-
- 0.7 - Initial aminet release.
- Had some feedback that the lha command was not working for some people.
- Thanks to Neil Botwick for his suggestions.
-