Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:22:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From: MOLNAR Laszlo <s0052mol AT sun10 DOT vsz DOT bme DOT hu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: libc.inf in THELP format
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On 1 Jul 1996, Molnar Laszlo wrote:
> 
> > I've converted libc.inf into THELP format. With the thelp.com TSR 
> > utility you will get an easy to use online libc help from any(*) text mode 
> > editor.
> 
> Does the conversion process use tools that are freely available?  If so,
> please tell me where one can get these tools.  I would like to point
> people to these tools in the FAQ, so they could convert the FAQ if they
> want.  Thanks. 
> 

I've uploaded the converter to http://thh2.hit.bme.hu/~ml/tih_conv.zip

I used a perl script and a program called TPHC (Turbo Pascal Help 
Compiler) (they are in the zip). The full version of TPHC can be found on 
the Internet, the file name is tphc10a.zip.

But this perl script is not a general info->thelp converter, it only 
works with libc.inf :-( . The reason is that I assumed, that all the 
crossrefs had a format of something like this: "* blah-blah::" which was 
true for libc.inf, but not for every info file (e.g. faq200.inf :-(
And the Indexing is also special for libc.inf (did you notice the "See 
also" sections in the topics?). So I think I will write a texi->thelp 
converter if I have some time (after releasing DJP 1.04).

Bye, ML 

Ps: look at the DJP 1.04 compression report too