helpdeco(1)
NAME
- helpdeco - A decompiler for windows help files (WinHelp
- .hlp).
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the helpdeco command.
- This manual page was prepared for the Debian distribution
- because the original program does not have a manual page. In
- stead, it has documentation in the text format; see below.
- helpdeco is a program that decompiles WinHelp files
- (.hlp).
- To recreate all source files neccessary to rebuild a Win
- dows helpfile, create a directory, change to this directory and
- call HELPDECO with the path and name of the helpfile to dissect.
- HELPDECO will extract all files contained in the helpfile in two
- passes and deposit them in the current directory. You may then
- rebuild the helpfile using the appropriate help compiler HC30,
- HC31, HCP, HCW, HCRTF, MVC, WMVC or MVCC. The file will not be
- identical, but should look and work like the original.
SEE ALSO
- The README.gz (english docs), README.de.gz (german docs)
- and helpfile.txt.gz (WinHelp format description) in
- /usr/share/doc/helpdeco/.
May 19, 2005