http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=WinHelp_annotation 2026-04-05T01:11:48Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WinHelp_annotation&diff=48825&oldid=prev 2024-06-28T17:42:58Z

<p>Identification added</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:42, 28 June 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Therefore, these are not pure text files, but they are rather binary files.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Therefore, these are not pure text files, but they are rather binary files.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The annotation parts themselves are embedded as simple text.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The annotation parts themselves are embedded as simple text.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Identification==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Files start with hex {{magic|3F 5F 03 00}} like WinHelp samples and at offset 0xD4 with bytes &lt;code&gt;62 6D 66 01 00&lt;/code&gt;.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Joergj http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WinHelp_annotation&diff=48824&oldid=prev 2024-06-28T17:31:04Z

<p>ANN files are binary</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 17:31, 28 June 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|extensions={{ext|ann}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|extensions={{ext|ann}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''WinHelp annotation''' files (.ann) are annotations to [[HLP (WinHelp)]] files. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Wikipedia:WinHelp|Wikipedia's article]] on WinHelp mentions its format </del>as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&quot;plain text?&quot;, with </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">question mark indicating that nobody seems to really be sure</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">If somebody can find examples &quot;out in the wild&quot;</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">maybe this can be settled</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''WinHelp annotation''' files (.ann) are annotations to [[HLP (WinHelp)]] files. &#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">These in principal use the same structure </ins>as the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">HLP files</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Therefore</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">these are not pure text files, but they are rather binary files.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The annotation parts themselves are embedded as simple text</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Joergj http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WinHelp_annotation&diff=37137&oldid=prev 2020-08-12T01:32:20Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Annotation |extensions={{ext|ann}} }} &#039;&#039;&#039;WinHelp annotation&#039;&#039;&#039; files (.ann) are annotations to <a href="/wiki/HLP_(WinHelp)" title="HLP (WinHelp)">HLP (WinHelp)</a> files. [[Wikipedia...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Annotation<br /> |extensions={{ext|ann}}<br /> }}<br /> '''WinHelp annotation''' files (.ann) are annotations to [[HLP (WinHelp)]] files. [[Wikipedia:WinHelp|Wikipedia's article]] on WinHelp mentions its format as &quot;plain text?&quot;, with the question mark indicating that nobody seems to really be sure. If somebody can find examples &quot;out in the wild&quot;, maybe this can be settled.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/macromedia.robohelp.winhelp/DtWkDgr_jQw Brief discussion of WinHelp annotations]<br /> * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060429150603/http://www.geocities.com:80/mwinterhoff/helpdeco.htm Archived copy of Help Deco software from GeoCities link in above discussion]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Microsoft]]</div>

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