Welcome to WarpHelp alpha 0.01!!

First of all, a little...

..disclaimer:
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There is no warranty, expressed or implied, associated with the use
of this product.  Although the product is, to the best of my knowledge,
perfectly safe, use is completely at the discretion and risk of the
consumer.  The author is not responsible for any data loss or system
corruption that may occur as a result of running the product.
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What's WarpHelp?
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WarpHelp aims to become THE substitute for the old VIEW.EXE from IBM. If you're
(like me) tired of:
*seeing VIEW.EXE opening full-screen every time, taking away
 all your screen just to show a little help;
*not being able to add notes to your help files;
*being unable to save text to a filename of your choice;
*being unable to select text to copy and paste;
*etc...
than WarpHelp is here for you!

What's this package?
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This package contains an early alpha of WarpHelp. VIEW.EXE is a rather complex
piece of code, and WarpHelp has a long long way to go before being able to
perfectly mimic all of VIEW.EXE's features.
The alpha release you have in your hands is only able to read the table of
contents for any INF file. Nearly all of the menu entries don't work, or are
disabled. BTW, WarpHelp will rapidly grow up to the point of being able to
fully read the textual part of INF files, with correct formatting. The work
that will follow will be harder, and so we get to the next part...

What can you do?
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If you're interested in WarpHelp, first of all you should test this alpha
release and report any bugs to me (but first read "Known bugs" below).
Please test as much INF files as possible, and compare results with VIEW. Then,
you should help me in finding information about INF files. All my work is based
on the "inf02a.doc" file included in this package. It tells me how to decode
the textual part of INF files, but it is lacking LOTS of information on
advanced features of IPF. If you know more about INF files, or are able to do
some investigation, or know people in IBM that could help me, please do it.
I've not yet decided if to go freeware or shareware, but for anyone who will
give me substantial help there will be a free copy in the latter case (well,
even in the former ;-)).

Known bugs
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Well, there's not very much code in which to find bugs :). BTW, one bug is that
the "Options->Libraries" menu entry will report garbage for anything but the
first entry. Also, WarpHelp is slow when reading VERY huge tables of contents.
But be aware that WarpHelp is built with all optimizations turned off and with
all debug flags turned on (hence relative slowness and fatness :-)).

Suggestions?
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If you have suggestions, ideas, something you would see changed in VIEW.EXE's
behaviour, etc... contact me at the following address:

cristiano.guadagnino@usa.net
-or-
criguada@tin.it

ThankYouS
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To the kind people at SpeedSoft, for their GREAT Sibyl development environment.
To IBM, for a GREAT OS (pity they don't believe anymore in it).
To all those writing GREAT stuff for OS/2.
