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Re: Moonstone BasHelp file format

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On Sunday, 17 July 2016 08:07:18 UTC+10, John Elliott  wrote:
> This knowledge is almost certainly of no interest to anybody but myself,
> but I have been studying Moonstone's BasHelp for the Amstrad PCW. Here is
> a description of the file format used by its helpfile, plus utilities to 
> convert to and from plain text:
> 
> <http://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/bashelp.html>
> 
>   (Before anyone on comp.os.cpm asks, BasHelp uses PCW-specific code to 
> read the text onscreen and to check for its hotkey, so can't be used on any 
> other CP/M system).
> 
> -- 
> John Elliott
> 
> Thinks: This is what a nice clean life leads to. Hmm, why did I ever lead one?
> 		-- Bluebottle, in the Goon Show

Hi John,

You're probably aware that there were a few PCW users over on the CPCWiki, unsure if their aware of your program.

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