[Offtopic] man to hlp

Tobias Burnus burnus@gmx.de
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:59:08 +0200


Hallo Rolf, hi all,

> does anyone know a tools for converting unix man pages to windows help
> files?

What's about rman (RosettaMan) which is available for Unix systems. rman can
convert man pages in a number of formats (from rman -h):
ASCII|roff|TkMan|Tk|Sections|HTML|SGML|MIME|LaTeX|LaTeX2e|RTF|pod

There are two possibilities:
a) Since Microsoft moves to a HTML based help system, simply use rman -f HTML
b) For workaholics: Convert to RTF and add some hidden text/keywords. Then run
the RTF file through a help file compiler to obtain the .hlp file.

Yours sincerely,

Tobias Burnus