Liberty Basic Help in CHM format

Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.misc, alt.lang.basic
Subject	Liberty Basic Help in CHM format
Date	2011-05-11 22:55 +0100
From	"Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk>
Message-ID	<op.vvb66ugxn5ksl5@richard> (permalink)
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One of the shortcomings of Liberty Basic (v4.04) is that the supplied Help  
documentation has no built-in search facility, so you can't easily track  
down the relevant section knowing only a keyword or phrase.  This is  
because the Help is provided in the form of plain HTML files which open in  
your default browser.

To address this shortcoming I have written a small utility which converts  
the supplied HTML files into a CHM (Compiled HTML Help) which opens in  
Microsoft's HTML Help Viewer.  This provides a Table of Contents, an  
Alphabetical Index and a Full Text Search.  My utility can be found here  
(it is 'digitally signed' to give you confidence that it is safe to run):

  http://www.rtr.myzen.co.uk/makelb4chm.exe

The utility automatically performs the steps necessary to create the CHM  
file, including if necessary installing Microsoft's 'HTML Help Workshop'  
application.  It also creates shortcuts to the CHM on the Desktop and in  
the Start Menu.

Because the generated CHM file contains a compressed version of the HTML  
files which are part of your Liberty Basic installation, it is governed by  
the same Copyright restrictions and Licensing Terms as those HTML files.   
In particular it may not be distributed or otherwise made available to  
anybody else.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

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Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-11 22:55 +0100
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 04:57 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "news@rtrussell.co.uk" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 08:00 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 15:15 +0000
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 18:08 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 17:30 +0000
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-12 23:34 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-12 23:42 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 10:02 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 10:19 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 17:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-13 15:14 -0600
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-13 22:37 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format H-Man <Spam@bites.fs> - 2011-05-16 10:08 -0600
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Derek <derekrss@yahoo.ca> - 2011-05-12 08:14 -0700
  Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-14 01:32 +0000
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 22:37 -0700
      Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:28 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 04:57 -0700
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:00 -0700
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format aury <aurelw.wiz@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 05:04 -0700
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:19 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-15 10:43 +0100
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-05-15 03:00 +0000
        Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-02 22:22 +0200
          Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 12:40 +0100
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Gordon Rahman" <grahman@planet.nl> - 2011-06-05 18:05 +0200
            Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 17:18 +0000
              Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 18:50 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2011-06-05 18:11 +0000
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-06-05 22:47 +0100
                Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format Red Rooster <NewRedRooster@hottmail.com> - 2011-06-09 22:14 -0700
    Re: Liberty Basic Help in CHM format "Richard Russell" <news@rtrussell.co.uk> - 2011-05-14 10:14 +0100

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