HelpIndex Downloading instructions

Last modified: 18 February 1997.

Copyright and Licence

HelpIndex, MakeHelpIndex and their commponent classes are Copyright © 1996,1997 PHD Computer Consultants Ltd. Your use of this software is governed by our licence agreement.

By downloading the evaluation software, you are accepting a licence to evaluate HelpIndex for 30 days. Paying for the full software gives a further licence to use unlimited HelpIndex for 12 months.

Note that the evaluation HelpIndex, version 1.7.1, only displays an index and is deliberately limited to displaying a maximum of 500 indices and a maximum of 100 URLs. This will in fact be big enough for a lot of sites. The full version has no limits.

Downloading and Installation

For an alternative description of this process, read the getting started guide.

You will need approximately 360kB of disk space for the full development kit.

Most people will want the full evaluation development kit PHDhi171.zip (approx 145kB) which has all the class files and this documentation.

The documentation covers both the evaluation version 1.7.1 and the latest version 2.

Otherwise just download the 31kB class evaluation development kit HelpIndex.zip and expand to get the classes, or retrieve all the class and gif files individually from http://www.phdcc.com/download/helpindex/.

Usually you will put these files in the same directory as your index web page on your server. Remember to preserve the letter case exactly.

If you have any difficulties obtaining these files then please email Chris Cant and he will reply with a copy of the development kit.

You must create your Help Index File and install it on your server. PHD's MakeHelpIndex program can make an index file automatically. You may wish to alter your HTML or add page or anchor keywords, so that the right indices are generated.

Make a web page which runs HelpIndex, see applet usage.

Copy the help index file, eg called siteindex.hi, to your server. If the .hi extension causes problems with your server, then rename the file to something acceptable, eg .txt.


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