helpdeco

Langue: en

Version: May 19, 2005 (ubuntu - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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NAME

helpdeco - A decompiler for windows help files (WinHelp .hlp).

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the helpdeco command.

This manual page was prepared for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the text format; see below.

helpdeco is a program that decompiles WinHelp files (.hlp).

To recreate all source files neccessary to rebuild a Windows helpfile, create a directory, change to this directory and call HELPDECO with the path and name of the helpfile to dissect. HELPDECO will extract all files contained in the helpfile in two passes and deposit them in the current directory. You may then rebuild the helpfile using the appropriate help compiler HC30, HC31, HCP, HCW, HCRTF, MVC, WMVC or MVCC. The file will not be identical, but should look and work like the original.

SEE ALSO

The README.gz (english docs), README.de.gz (german docs) and helpfile.txt.gz (WinHelp format description) in /usr/share/doc/helpdeco/.