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- INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TURNING VIDEOHLP.TXT INTO AN ONLINE HELP
-
-
- - To turn VIDEOHLP.TXT into an online help, first you will need to
- download HelpPC 2.10+. HelpPC is available in the following ftp/http
- addresses: (and also in their mirrors)
- http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/info.html (as helppc21.zip)
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/helppc21.zip
-
- - Unzip the downloaded file to a subdirectory, for example (C:\TC\HELPPC).
- This subdirectory I will call from now HelpPC subdirectory.
- Before continuing from this point, you'd better read HELPPC.DOC in HelpPC
- subdirectory to have a better idea of what you are going to do from this
- point.
-
- - Add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- SET HLP=d:pathname (no blanks, except between "SET HLP")
-
- Where 'd:' is the drive and 'pathname' is the HelpPC subdirectory
- (this should be fully qualified, with or without the trailing '\').
-
- For example:
-
- SET HLP=C:\TC\HELPPC
-
- - Move or copy VIDEOHLP.TXT to HelpPC subdirectory. If you have used
- INSTALL.BAT VIDEOHLP.TXT should also be at the \DOC subdirectory of your
- compiler (for example: C:\TC\DOC)
-
- - From HelpPC subdirectory, type:
-
- INDEXHLP VIDEOHLP
-
- or (if you desire also to include the .TXT help files provided by HelpPC,
- type:
-
- BUILD VIDEOHLP.TXT
-
- - Include HelpPC subdirectory in your path.
-
- To access the VIDEO HANDLING FUNCTIONS online help, just type from a DOS
- prompt HELPPC
-
- If you are using Turbo C++ 3.0 or similar, you may also include the online
- help in your compiler IDE. To do so, go to Options menu and them to Transfer...
- submenu. This will show a window with a box named Program Titles. Go to the
- last line, and click on Edit button. This will show another window. Fill that
- window with the desired title for HelpPC, HELPPC.COM plus it's path, and
- leave the last line empty. In the left side, assign a hot key and click on
- New (or Modify) button if everything is OK. Now the previous window should
- appear and you should see in it a new entry with the title you gave for
- HelpPC. If more than one entry for HelpPC appears, remove the exceeding
- entries for HelpPC. If everything is OK, click over the OK button. To test,
- just hit the assigned hot key when editing any file in the IDE.
-
- If you wish you may try to convert VIDEOHLP.TXT to a help format readable
- by THELP and them include VIDEOHLP into Turbo C++ online help. To do so,
- read CONVERT.TXT in this subdirectory.
-