From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:09:03 BST
Subject: Windows Help files

  I am sorry for the non-C and probably non-Gnu query, but:-
  Much important information comes only as Windows *.HLP files. If I read Word
Perfect / Microsoft Word / Windows Write / TEX files as text, I see readable
text, with some admixture of junk, but it is readable. But not so with Windows
*.HLP files. I sometimes prefer to reformat and edit text info files to my own
desires and print them on paper to read at leisure, instead of having to read
them in penny instalments on the screen and in the process tie my computer up
so I can't work on something while referring to the information. (This <is> a
bit relevant to C, because (information that I need to have a go at writing a
Windows package for djgpp) seems to come only as Windows *.HLP files.)
  So PLEASE does anyone out there know (including where I can FTP it from) of
a package that reformats Windows *.HLP files into some sort of legible ascii?
Or at least information on the internal format of Windows *.HLP files so I can
write such a decoder myself?