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 <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > 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 launches AMB to > read the FreeDOS Help (with the correct language file). > > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 11:47 AM Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > >> 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 big and requires about 80K of available RAM. >> >> As a demo, I converted the FreeDOS help today into an AMB book. This is >> something that I will use as the help tool in the Svarog386 FreeDOS >> distribution, but perhaps it could be an interesting alternative for >> vanilla FreeDOS as well. The AMB reader, as well as the format >> specification and the converted FreeDOS help file can all be downloaded >> on the project's home page: >> >> http://ambook.sourceforge.net >> >> It is still a very much work-in-progress project, but perfectly >> functional already. I will certainly add a few features during incoming >> weeks (mouse support, some form of light compression, full-text search, >> etc). >> >> I'd like also to compile the RBIL into an AMB book in some near future. >> >> Enjoy. >> >> Mateusz >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- --Andy
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