Re: [Freedos-devel] htmlhelp bug list

2021-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andy, nice to hear that you are working on improving HTMLHELP. If you ask me, it would be great to keep a working HTML based help viewer around. The format has the advantage that people already know HTML and can contribute content and translations easily. AMB converted versions are nice to h

Re: [Freedos-devel] htmlhelp bug list

2021-02-02 Thread Andy Stamp
Hello, I started working on getting HTMLHELP building with OpenWatcom because I don't have access to Borland C++ 3.1 in preparation for fixing some bugs. This was around the same time that Mateusz released the AMB format and converted the FreeDOS help HTML files to that format. Should I continue

Re: [Freedos-devel] htmlhelp bug list

2021-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, Of course I meant Fritz Mueller who does have a lot of experience in using HTMLHELP and working with help texts for it. So I trust him that those bugs do exist. He just is not on the mailing list, so I am forwarding. You wondered whether bugs depend on configuration: One of the bugs is

Re: [Freedos-devel] htmlhelp bug list

2021-02-02 Thread tom ehlert
> To whom it may concern: Current issues with HTMLHELP from Fritz :-) why do we accept input from 'Fritz' who wants to remain anonymous? did you verify these bugs? or could this be dependend on the Fritz's configuration? what version of HTMLHELP with what version of help files? > a) If there i

[Freedos-devel] htmlhelp bug list

2021-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! To whom it may concern: Current issues with HTMLHELP from Fritz :-) a) If there is a language set in environment variables, e.g. "set LANG=ID" and there is NO "htmlhelp.ID" help hangs instead of working and falling back to english language, b) help.exe often crashes when moving around fro