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The program INT2GUID converts the Interrupt list files into an input
file for the TurboPower Software MAKEHELP program to create a GUIDE
Popup Reference Machine database. The program is a transcription of
INT2QH written by Kai Uwe Rommel.
When running, INT2GUID reads either the interrup.lst file or the partial
interrup.a ... files, and memory.lst, interrup.pri, int2guid.ref, and
int2guid.gui from the current directory and writes the created MakeHelp
source file to standard output (it creates two temporary files topic.tmp
and subtopic.tmp during that process in the current directory).
From the 1/91 list, it creates a 1.4M source file for MAKEHELP which
then creates a help database of about 1.14M (poor compression ratio!).
INT2GUID executes i 1 minute on a 20 MHz 386 based machine, and MAKEHELP
executes in 2 minutes.
GUIDE's space for main index and window headings is limited to 64 k. Thus,
with almost 2300 topics, I have limited each entry to 25 characters. A
more detailed index is implemented as help screens. this implementation
is a little bit inconvenient, but it gives an absolutely fair solution
to the problem.
GUIDE can pop up on a topic indicated by an interrupt number at the
cursor's position on the screen.
Bent Lynggaard.