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Subject:Re: ForeHelp for Win3.1 and HTMLhelp From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:35:19 -0800
At 10:41 AM 3/6/97 -0600, Geoff Hart wrote:
> Another question: about a week ago, I asked about
> extracting formatted text files from WinHelp files, but I
> haven't seen the message appear in the digests. So once
> again: Is there any way to extract a useful wordprocessor
> document from a WinHelp file? (We're trying to recover some
> text for a client who doesn't have access to the original
> wordprocessor files... no idea why, and because they
> loooked embarrassed, I'm not asking either.)
>
Not much help if you don't use Word, but RoboHelp Office 4 has a utility
called Help-To_Word that does what it says.
--Wayne Douglass
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