[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Sep 8, 2015 7:57 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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> On 8 Sep 2015, at 15:52, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I need a DATATRIEVE expert... any volunteers? :)
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> > Aside from that, MediaWiki might be the best idea for storage (even if
> > I'm not that keen on it) as it's easy to host and the front-end is
> > relatively platform agnostic.
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> My idea was to keep the "sources" in VMS HLP format and write some scripts to convert them to whatever we need (including MediaWiki markup that I then automatically upload).
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> This way people can access the information through various sources (Plain text files over FAL, MediaWiki, VMS HELP, JSON for further processing etc).
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> Basically you describe the output format to me and I write the scripts to produce them - the source file is copied across HECnet to CHIMPY which produces the various outputs, updates the Wiki and possibly even notifies interested parties of updates made.
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> Sound like a plan?

The generic idea sounds good, but maybe the base file format should have more info/structure than the simple VMS help input form.  Given a simple formatting structure, emitting the VMS help and the other formats should be readily achieved.

I'm looking at reworking the internal help structure of simh with the goal of potentially emitting several different formats.

- Mark
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