Re: Help Please!

From: oracle <oracle_at_nightmare.com>
Date: 1997/03/10
Message-ID: <3324B3E1.589F@nightmare.com>#1/1

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Suzanne M. Eriksen wrote:

>
> Hi,
>         I'm working on a project to develop an application in Oracle.

I'm

> on the documentation team and I'm trying to figure out the best way to
> implement the on-line help.  I understand that Oracle Book is not very
> stable and that I shouldn't depend upon it.  Ideally, I would like to

use
> something to create MS Help files from word 6.0 documents. > We, the documentation team, need to complete this project by the
> the end of the first week of May. Also, we have a very low budget, if any
> at all, and can't afford to buy expensive software. (This is what happens

> at a California State University!)
>         If you could submit any suggestions to this issue, I would
> sincerely appreciate it!!!
>
> -Suzanne-

I read somewhere that there was a converter to go from *.obd to *.html files. I have never seen the utility or tried it. I think it was an executable called something like "odbtohtml". Has anyone ever heard of this?

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<DT>Suzanne M. Eriksen wrote: 
>  
> Hi, 
>         I'm working on a project
to develop an application in Oracle.  I'm 
> on the documentation team and I'm trying to figure out the best way
to 
> implement the on-line help.  I understand that Oracle Book is
not very 
> stable and that I shouldn't depend upon it.  Ideally, I would
like to use 
> something to create MS Help files from word 6.0 documents. 
>         We, the documentation
team, need to complete this project by the 
> the end of the first week of May.  Also, we have a very low budget,
if any 
> at all, and can't afford to buy expensive software.  (This is
what happens 
> at a California State University!) 
>         If you could submit
any suggestions to this issue, I would 
> sincerely appreciate it!!! 
>  
> -Suzanne- 

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<DT>I read somewhere that there was a converter to go from *.obd to *.html files.  I have never seen the utility or tried it.  I think it was an executable called something like "odbtohtml".  Has anyone ever heard of this?</DT>

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