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Re: [Plib-users] BGL Loader

[Per L. <li...@ho...>]

John wrote:
> Hi,
>     I downloaded M$FS98 SDK (trying to figure out BGL 
format) and found a .hlp
> file.
>     Does anyone have experience on reading M$ .hlp 
files ?  (Without a Windo$
> machine)
>     I looked at wine's site, their experience told me 
winhlp32.exe doesn't work
> yet at this point.
>     I tried a decompiler (for win32 binary) by using 
wine, but that didn't work
> either.
>     By the way I found .asm files (asambly language files 
for Intel x86 cpu) in
> the SDK package.
>     Things are getting more and more interesting.

I have a pdf-file with BGL documentation that is very good, 
but I have forgot where I got it from. I can send it to you 
when I get home.

Regards,
Per

Re: [Plib-users] BGL Loader

[John T. <ndc...@mx...>]

Per Liedman wrote:

> John wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I downloaded M$FS98 SDK (trying to figure out BGL
> format) and found a .hlp
> > file.
> >     Does anyone have experience on reading M$ .hlp
> files ?  (Without a Windo$
> > machine)
> >     I looked at wine's site, their experience told me
> winhlp32.exe doesn't work
> > yet at this point.
> >     I tried a decompiler (for win32 binary) by using
> wine, but that didn't work
> > either.
> >     By the way I found .asm files (asambly language files
> for Intel x86 cpu) in
> > the SDK package.
> >     Things are getting more and more interesting.
>
> I have a pdf-file with BGL documentation that is very good,
> but I have forgot where I got it from. I can send it to you
> when I get home.

Guess what, I found a hlp2rtflx converter.  It's a free binary for
linux.
http://www.herdsoft.com/ftp/downloads.html
I start reading the help file by StarOffice52.

This company is really cool. They also have a hlp2html CGI program so
that hlp files can start showing on the web BY Apache. They even claim
that they hope it won't be used to produce Windo$ applications.

Thanks

John Tsao