Information Presentation Facility

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IPF is the abbreviation for the Information Presentation Facility from IBM . It is an SGML award for creating online help files for the OS / 2 operating system . Binary help files (HLP) or online books (INF) are generated from the corresponding source text files using a compiler (IPFC).

history

IPF and INF were first used in 1989 for the OS / 2 1.2 operating system online help . The last editions of IBM PC-DOS also use the INF format for the help function.

example

A small example from the manual: 

    .*
    :userdoc.
    :title.Beispieldatei
    :h1 res=001.Eine Überschrift
    .*
    :p.Dies ist etwas Text.
    :artwork name='ein_bild.bmp'.
    :i1. Ein Index-Eintrag
    .*
    :euserdoc.

Development tools

The compiler (IPFC) is supplied with the development environment (Developer's Toolkit) for OS / 2. There are also various tools for converting foreign formats.

  • Hypermake (formerly MakeIPF)
  • Phelsuma / 2
  • Vyperhelp

See also

Web links