
                          HTML Help version 5.1.0B
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                                BETA VERSION

See also the files COPYING, BUGS and HISTORY.

Contents
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1 Introduction
2 Copyrights
3 Contacts
4 Building HTML Help
5 How to include new HTML files


1 Introduction
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This is the FreeDOS clone of the MS-DOS 6.22 help command. It is a free
and open-source program.


2 Copyrights
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"HTML Help" is Copyright (c) Express Software 1998-2002,
protected under the Express Software Public License Agreement (see the
file COPYING). Please read and abide by its terms.


3 Contacts
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The FreeDOS website: http://www.freedos.org
FreeDOS discussion list: fd-dev@topica.com

The HTML help maintainer (Robert Platt) is worldwiderob@yahoo.co.uk
The original developer (Joe Cosentino) is onehardmarine@attbi.com


4 Building HTML Help
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The help.exe binary is included for those who do not wish to modify help.

It was built with "Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS", MASM, and TLINK, and uses
Borland's Make.

TASMHELP.MAK is included for those with the TASM assembler, but this hasn't
been tested for a bit. CONIO.OBJ should have been included with the source
code, so it is not necessary for you to have an assembler unless you wish to
modify the video hardware access (which is in conio.asm).

HELP.PRJ is a "Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS" project file. This has been set up for
debugging, and takes advantage of the debugging capabilities in the
TC++ IDE. However, all release versions should be produced by compiling
from the command line. This produces the most efficient code.
Running RELEASE.BAT does this and cleans up the files correctly.

5 How to include new HTML files
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If you wish to contribute to the help files, you should first make contact
by mailing the FreeDOS discussion forum, fd-dev@topica.com.
