RE: JAVA (was Re: ADVERTISING SUPPORT/ComputerWorld 7/28 - L

Wow, am I falling behind....

On 8/15 Bob wrote:

> Actually, HTML is probably going to stick around. There is the book, "HTML
> for Dummies" that I bought and learn enough to be dangerous. It's worth a
> look because most helptext systems are moving towards HTML as their file
> type. I think this is good. It will be even better when IBM and MS figure
> out how to make it look as good as their original native helptext.

Actually there a fantastic reason for moving to HTML in IBM's case, because
almost all of the help texts are handled through BookManager, the data files
for which are built from BookMaster files, which is an(other) SGML-based
language, so converting to HTML is very easy. There's even an
externally-availible REXX package that does a very thorough conversion at
<http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/> that I've used under both VM and
OS/2 and could probably be tweeked into running in REXX/400.

Peter H. Coffin
Standard disclaimer applies / I just work on 400s, I don't develop 'em.
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