The sources for the INF and HLP files are written using a slightly extended HTML syntax. Creating INF and HLP files is therefore a two-step process:
  1. The HTML sources are translated into an .IPF source file, using the HTML2IPF utility.

  2. Next, the .IPF source is fed into IBM's IPFC.EXE from the Developer's Toolkit. See "Preparations" for where to get this utility.
Please use the MAKE.CMD file on the top level of the XWorkplace source files to have the doc files created. This might take a while. You will first need to set a few environment variables on top of MAKE.CMD, which is documented in that file itself.

You then have two alternatives for the translations:

The "root" file in each of the two source directories is called XFLDRxxx.HTML, respectively, with "xxx" being your country code (which you should change in this one filename because HTML2IPF will use this name for the target IPF file also).

To use HTML2IPF manually (instead of through MAKE.CMD), open a command line in the INF or HLP directory (with XWorkplace ;-) ), and type:

<path>\html2ipf xfldr001.html

This will create a XFLDRxxx.IPF file (in the above example, XFLDR001.IPF). You can then run ipfc XFLDRxxx.IPF to compile a HLP file; add an /INF switch to produce an "INF" file. You must have the INF or HLP directory as your current directory, or HTML2IPF will tumble.

In any case, mind these important notes: