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Re: [S] making SPLUS 2000 help files?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Fri Sep 17 15:46:55 1999
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:38:31 +0100 (BST)
From: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "David O. Nelson" <daven@llnl.gov>
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, David O. Nelson wrote:
>
> The SPLUS 2000 program guide says that "highly experienced users" can use
[Or those with good tools, fortunately]
> the Winhelp compiler to create windows help files. Any hints as to how to
> get familiar with the Winhelp compiler? A search of the microsoft web site
> finds lots of hits for winhelp, but only one irrelevant hit for winhelp
> compiler.
It is old technology, now. (Says he having spent the afternoon building
Compiled HTML Help aka .chm help files.)
The V&R2 programming complements (on-line, via
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS) have details of how to do this, and I
have a zip file spwinhlp of routines (referenced there) of Perl routines to
convert text and Unix S-PLUS help files. That is how the libraries in my
SWin collection were converted. It even tells you where to find an old
version of the winhelp compiler, but use hcrtf if you have a copy (it is
_much_ faster on NT).
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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