HELP (vHELP)

An OpenVMS-style help subsystem: a Markdown librarian and a browser.

Version	X01-35
Status	Active development
Platforms	Linux
Licence	Apache License 2.0
For whom	Authors of command line utilities who want hierarchical HELP as in OpenVMS.

What it is

vhelptran translates Markdown into a help library, vhelp walks it by topics. The reverse operation (/EXTRACT) gives the text back, and after the first pass the extract-translate cycle is stable.

Why

All our packages ship their help through it.

Quick start Example

vhelptran doc/helplib.md /OUTPUT=helplib.hlb /IDENT=X-01
vhelp submit /after
vhelptran /EXTRACT helplib.hlb /KEY="VHELPTRAN SOURCE FORMAT"

Source: vHELP/README.md

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