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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: tphelp compiler, bitmapped BGI fonts
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Date: 5 Oct 90 13:09:28 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.171600.3045@csc.anu.oz.au> bdb112@csc.anu.oz.au writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to 1/ compile a text file into a file that can be read
>by the TPE help facility - i.e. make your own on-line help

You mean the TP IDE help, not the freeware TPE don't you? If so, I don't know
of any way to do what you want.  However, there's a free program called
MAKETEXT which can de-compile the Borland help files, and make them suitable
for import into another help system.  (MAKETEXT is specifically set up to
work with TurboPower's POPHELP TSR, but I imagine it would be possible to
mechanically edit the output for Norton's online guides or another system.)
MAKETEXT comes as MAKTXT.LZH on the Bonus disk with TurboPower's Turbo 
Professional and Object Professional libraries, and is probably also available
on Compuserve, in the PCVENB forum where TurboPower gives support (and maybe
the BPROGA forum where Borland gives support).

If it's not also available on Simtel20 (and its mirrors) it soon will be:
I'm going to get a recent file list, and will upload it if it's not there.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu