[Info-vax] Enhancements or replacement for current VMS HELP ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/4/2017 9:29 AM, Baldrick wrote:
> Many years ago on a DECUS tape before there was even a GALAXY or
> an Alpha, there was a bit of software called (if I remember rightly)
> SHELP which was an SMG interface into HELPLIB.HLB. We're going back
> to mid 80's and I think it was written in PASCAL. I will dig out the
> references and post here. It came off a reel to reel DECUS library
> tape.
> 
> Basically it threw up a screen of all the topics and you used the
> cursor to navigate it, page up / page down and so on.
> 
> I'll extract the source code [content of the program etc.] and maybe
> someone can look at porting it to IA64?

I think there is a fair chance that it will just build and
run on VMS I64.

I don't think VMS Pascal or SMG$ or LBR$ has made many
non-backwards-compatible changes the last 25 years.

Arne