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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-04, Baldrick <trickynic at gmail.com> 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.
>

I've found it Nic and yes it is written in Pascal. It's at Brian's site:

	http://decuslib.com/decus/vs0174/shelp/

The documentation says bug reports should be directed to some guy
by the name of Hunter Goatley. :-)

> 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.
>

It's better than VMS help but it's still limited however. For example,
there's no searching a tree or navigation of topics using the cursor keys.

I've still got a new help prototype on my outstanding list to look
at some time but right now other things are taking priority.

Simon.

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