greengeek Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Got my Light Rail News CD but it's in an older Windows .hlp file, what can I use to open it in Linux?Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Hi JoyHere is just the tool for you, have a look: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kama_helpexplorer/ Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 or this:http://www.kamasoftware.com/helpexplorer.php(I believe it's $29) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Ooops I did not realize it wasn't free software . . . try this one:http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/ ( it is GPL ) BrunoOoops again . . . not sure if .hlp is already supported Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 (edited) I don't know if this will work, but it says you can convert .hlp files to the newer .chm fileshttp://www.herdsoft.com/linux/themen/hlp_to_chm.htmlmore here http://www.herdsoft.com/ftp/downloads.html Edited September 25, 2006 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 Thanks guys, I'll check them all out later today and let you know what works or if I can get anything to work.Hate to have to go back to using the Windows machine just to read rail magazines especially when all my other research stuff is on Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted September 27, 2006 Author Share Posted September 27, 2006 http://www.processtext.com/abchlp.htmlThat is the one I used this time but have downloaded the others to test later. The ABC Amber one is a 30 day trial, don't know if I really need to buy it as this is the first .hlp file I have had for years. Took slightly under one hour to convert to HTML (web page) and the same time to convert to PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striker Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Keep us posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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