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From: Paul Randall on 19 Apr 2010 21:50 "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message news:OW4l5N93KHA.5084(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > | So what process do you use to get the HSX files you are interested in? > I > | suppose you could have a test computer with an OS that can easily be > | reimaged, and install a SDK, search for the HSXs of interest, convert > those > | to CHMs, and then save them for later use. Or do you use MSI to extract > the > | files of interest from the SDK installation package? > | > > I try to never install anything I don't have to, > in order to avoid system changes. And there's > really no reason to "install" docs. > > If necessary I unpack an MSI. With the link I > provided to the Server 2003 SDK there are 2 > options. The download is an ISO that ends up > being 3 MSIs (32- and 64-bit options) plus a > pile of CABs. The CABs have clear names. One > can just extract the CABs with "DOC" in the name. > > The second, easier option is to use an unpacker: > http://www.jsware.net/jsware/msicode.php5 > > Copy the appropriate MSI and CABs from the CD > to a folder on disk. Drop the MSI onto the unpacker > script. The script will unpack the whole thing to a > folder hierarchy that mimics what would happen if > it were actually installed. The HXS and HXI files are > then easy to find. They're all extracted to the path: > > ProgramFilesFolder\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Help\ > > That folder can then just be dropped onto the > converter script to get CHMs. > > I've been looking into writing another script to > create a "help collection". People who have MSDN 2001 > or earlier installed can read the whole MSDN set > of SDK docs with a single index. That's a collection, > comprising a large number of "merged" CHMs. > > Theoretically one can have multiple collections > by using a .COL file for each collection and registering > each collection in a file called hhcolreg.dat. > Unfortunately, there seems to be no official > documentation for this at all. I can only find snippets > of info. and I don't seem to be finding the whole story. > I *think* I should be able to create a .COL file that, > when clicked, would open the entire Server 2003 SDK > (or any other selected collection of CHMs) in the MSDN > library viewer, with a single, merged index. That would > mean that people using VS 5/6 with the CHM help system > could update their docs past 2001. (2001 was the last > MSDN version that was CHM.) But so far my experiments > just result in MSDN not working at all. :) > > If anyone has thorough info. about how all of that > works I'd be interested to know. I have details about > how to write the two files. It's just not working so far. Thanks for all that info. I will try to remember to run through the process when I get home in a few weeks. -Paul Randall |