Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 16/12/2020 12:39, C. Masloch wrote: Very nice! I'd guess it may be the path of least resistance to add an AMB output format to the existing Halibut compiler. That would be awesome, yes -- but I looked at the source code and it wasn't looking like a 5-minutes job, so I decided to go for the

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On at 2020-12-14 07:36 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hi Christian, Your docs seem very interesting! I didn't know about them. Having them available as AMB books would definitely be very cool. I am not very fond of HTML as a source-to-be-processed data, but the halibut thing appears very

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On December 15, 2020 6:45:46 PM GMT+01:00, ZB wrote: >There's no need to wait for "8086 code" - if you're interested I can >show >you example of TCL/Tk solution. Of course similar way it'll work in DOS Doing things on modern platforms with lots of RAM and 32bit ints is easy. Doing the same

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 02:37:49PM +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Guys, I have no issues with AMB neither any other new invention - but... > > maybe simpler solution would be to copy solution offered by Tk's "text > > widget"? The "side advantage" would be ability to browse the texts prepared >

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 14/12/2020 19:08, ZB wrote: Guys, I have no issues with AMB neither any other new invention - but... maybe simpler solution would be to copy solution offered by Tk's "text widget"? The "side advantage" would be ability to browse the texts prepared such way under every OS where Tk toolkit is

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

More points: 1. "It needs to be noted that words of less than 2 characters and more than 17characters cannot be indexed" Forth-language (one more dinosaur) have many 1-char commands (like @ ! , . + - / [ ] : ; etc ). So, need expect users, who want find @ into 1-char article name.

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Guys, I have no issues with AMB neither any other new invention - but... maybe simpler solution would be to copy solution offered by Tk's "text widget"? The "side advantage" would be ability to browse the texts prepared such way under every OS where Tk toolkit is available. Some more details:

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hello, Mateusz! I am wrote to you email with a few fords about AMB. I don't read this mail-list, so don't see your announces. I have few offers for AMB extension. I am software developer, author of text editor for DOS, which can work as lightweight IDE. (https://github.com/DosWorld/dwed)

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

After some quick investigations, I found that the text version of insref is almost AMB-ready, it only needed to have a TOC generated. I wrote a script that splits insref into multiple "chapters" using the Linux csplit command and then auto-generated a TOC from there. It is not perfect, because

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hi Christian, Your docs seem very interesting! I didn't know about them. Having them available as AMB books would definitely be very cool. I am not very fond of HTML as a source-to-be-processed data, but the halibut thing appears very promising. I will see how hard it would be to create a

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On at 2020-12-13 09:15 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: I'd love to have the FreeDOS books in there, too. https://www.freedos.org/books/ I don't think I have the free time to convert them, but if I sent you the ODT files, could you convert Sure, if the books are terminal-friendly (ie. no

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 13/12/2020 02:11, Jim Hall wrote: This makes me wonder if we could adapt this to become a new version of the FreeDOS Help system. No adaptation required I think. This is specifically one of the use cases I had in mind when developing AMB - as a simpler, lighter and more generic

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

I had been working on getting the existing HTMLHELP to compile in OpenWatcom as a pre-work step to fixing some of the existing bugs. But assuming this can handle the non-english languages it may be the way to go. On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 8:13 PM Jim Hall wrote: > This is great! > > I tried it

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

This is great! I tried it and enjoyed that I could read the FreeDOS Help as an AMB, with links to each section in the Help. This makes me wonder if we could adapt this to become a new version of the FreeDOS Help system. I'm thinking maybe we could create an alias or "shortcut" COM program that

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

> Don't forget ftp:, mailto:, gopher:, telnet:, news:, file:, ... > () > What about scheme-less URLs, e.g., or ? not THAT complicated. www. --> http://www. ftp. --> ftp://ftp blabla@ --> mailto:blabla file: is local anyway, not

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hi Mateusz, > On 08/12/2020 22:44, Robert Riebisch wrote: >> We could probably only catch those by starting to wrap all URLs in <> at >> the document source level manually. > > Yes, that would be a very good compromise. Not my own idea: "Using

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 08/12/2020 22:44, Robert Riebisch wrote: We could probably only catch those by starting to wrap all URLs in <> at the document source level manually. Yes, that would be a very good compromise. But there may be side effects, when <> is used for other stuff too. The linkification engine

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hi Mateusz, >> 1) Clickable web links, please? E.g., http://www.trumpet.com.au/ at >> . >> 2) A back to home function by clicking on "FreeDOS help system (hhstndrd >> 1.0.8 en)". >> 3) A search function. > > All very

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

On 07/12/2020 19:42, Robert Riebisch wrote: Can we have: 1) Clickable web links, please? E.g., http://www.trumpet.com.au/ at . 2) A back to home function by clicking on "FreeDOS help system (hhstndrd 1.0.8 en)". 3) A

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

I have a feeling someone left the group up on a mobile device while in a pocket... lol Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 7, 2020 12:52 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > This person has been banned for spamming the group. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hi, > On Dec 7, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Update: this evening I created an AMB reader for PHP. This allows one to host > AMB books on a web server and read them with a browser, the conversion being > performed on the fly. > > The FreeDOS help that I have earlier converted

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hi Mateusz, > Update: this evening I created an AMB reader for PHP. This allows one to > host AMB books on a web server and read them with a browser, the > conversion being performed on the fly. > > The FreeDOS help that I have earlier converted to AMB can now be read > on-line. Here's how it

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

This person has been banned for spamming the group. On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:36 AM Kai Ketelhut wrote: > Ml > > -- > Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sic > > Sent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > On 07/12/2020, 18:34 Kai Ketelhut wrote: > >> Stanca >> >> -- >>

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Update: this evening I created an AMB reader for PHP. This allows one to host AMB books on a web server and read them with a browser, the conversion being performed on the fly. The FreeDOS help that I have earlier converted to AMB can now be read on-line. Here's how it looks like:

[Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

Hello, These past few days I was working on a new hobby project. It is called AMB, and it is a simple hyperlink format that makes it possible to create "books" that are easy to read even on very limited hardware. The "books" can be viewed with a tool named AMB. It is only a few kilobytes