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I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help? blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/n... #help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase

A Norton Guide collection

I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?

https://blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/norton-guide-collection.html

#help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase

I've just released v1.0.0 of ng2web, a command line tool that converts a #NortonGuide file into a collection of static web pages. Useful if you want to revive information locked up in Norton Guide files.

https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/24/ng2web.html

#cli #python #MSDOS #Clipper

Now that work on my new #NortonGuide reader has settled down, and given that the underlying library has had some improvements, I think it's time to tidy up `ng2web`; another tool that uses that library.

#MSDOS #clipper #web #python

I've released v0.3.0 of AgiNG, my #NortonGuide reader for the #terminal. The main addition in this release is searching.

See https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/22/aging-0-3-0.html for more details.

#MSDOS #Clipper #Python #Textual

Looking through some of the new #NortonGuide files I found, this might be my new favourite entry in any guide ever.

#MSDOS

In an effort to really shake down my #NortonGuide reader project, I've been looking around the net for any Norton Guide files I don't have in my collection.

Found another 11, including a rather nice #MSDOS programmers guide I'd long forgotten about.

The global search facility in my new #NortonGuide reader is coming along nicely. The main workings of it are done. Now the tinkering and tweaking of the look/feel begins...

#Terminal #Textual #MSDOS #Python #Clipper

I'm at the "add global search" stage of working on my new #NortonGuide reader; and it's thrown up some issues with corrupted or badly-written guides. So NGDB v0.10.0 is out and it's much more defensive. https://github.com/davep/ngdb.py/releases/tag/v0.10.0

I also wrote a tool to scan every guide I have to hand to look for any issues: https://github.com/davep/ngdb.py/blob/main/.comprehensive_test/read_all_known_guides

#Python #Clipper #MSDOS

Just released v0.2.0 of AgiNG, my #NortonGuide reader for the #terminal. This adds a wee bug fix and adds more guide directory management support. https://github.com/davep/aging

Also, fun fact: if you set up textual-serve you can use this as a browser-based Norton Guide viewer.

#Python #Textual #MSDOS #Clipper

I've released v0.1.0 of AgiNG; my new #NortonGuide reader for the #Terminal.

#Python #MSDOS #Textual #Clipper

https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/12/aging.html

An issue with some #NortonGuide files is they use colour attributes that assume the original Norton Guide application colour scheme. Won't play well with my app's themes.

So I added a "classic view" mode...

#MSDOS #Clipper #Terminal #Python #Textual

Next up for the #NortonGuide reader project is sorting out colour mapping. #Textual (well the #terminal I guess) has a very idea of what colour codes are vs good old #MSDOS.

Will need to create a mapping.

#Python

While my knowledge of the #NortonGuide file format is enough to make a working reader, to this day there's a few bits in the format that are unknowns to me. So I decided to ask ChatGPT about it to see if it had indexed anything I didn't know about.

Asked it to cite its sources...

Woke up this morning thinking I didn't like how I'd done the see-also handling in the new #NortonGuide viewer. Dropped the pop-up menu and went with a more classic approach...

#Terminal #Python #Clipper #MSDOS #Textual

The #NortonGuide reader for the #terminal project now has a bunch more navigation, and see-also support too. It's almost done with basic functionality!

#Python #Textual

The basics of guide navigation are now in place; and most of the rendering is working fine too (one possible #Textual bug aside). Next up is see-also support.

#NortonGuide #Clipper #Python #Terminal