[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

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On 8 Sep 2015, at 16:06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> Not that I want to discourage you guys, but it is not that simple.
> For example, the VMS help files actually looks pretty much the same in format as the RSX help files. However, where VMS have a rather interactive help program, that will figure out the subtopics, list them, and prompt you, the RSX help program does nothing like this. So, instead each help topic itself needs to list what subtopics exist, in the help text. So, in essence, while the information is there, you need the resulting output content to be somewhat different.
> 

I'd need to do this for generating the MediaWiki markup as well, my script will keep a track of basically headings, subheadings, and the text under each of those, and export them in the desired format.

It really is quite easy to do this in say Python.




> Datatrieve is probably not what I'd use for this. This is a case of wanting to have data in a format that identifies different types of information, and relationship between them. But it's not really a database as such. Datatrieve fits this usage pretty bad.
> You could argument that something like HTML could work, just like XML, or any other markup language.
> But you need tools to generate output for different targets, which maybe is the more complex part. Anyone going to write those? Else I think this is not going anywhere.
> 
> You could, in essence, have a very simple source file format. Just key,value pairs. That is the easy part. The generation of files is the larger work.
> 
> 	Johnny
> 

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