GFAWin32.chm 2 .txt

[Roger Cabo]

Hi everyone, (long time ago) :-)

I like to convert the GFAWin32.chm to a single readable file for ChatGPT
But there is no way to convert the file successfully.

I want to let write ChatGPT some complex stuff..
Unfortunately  ChatGPT only knows GB16 and not GB32.

It takes extremely long to write a text file contains the most and important stuff.
www.zamzar.com an others are not able to convert the *.chm file.

any ideas?
thank you!

[webu]

Couldn't the creators of the CHM file be asked to create a readable PDF or a DOC? Surely they have a source file, right?

Another approach could be to automatically scroll through the CHM and save the content in a text file using clipboard functions, or even better, in a DOC file using Word. If you go to "Index" in the CHM, you can probably get to every page quite easily.

I could imagine that this is relatively quick if you automate it cleverly.

[Xavier]

I am totally inexperienced when it comes to this.

Sounds interesting that Chatgpt might be able to 'see' all the information on GB32 in one go.

[webu]

Sept 29, 2024 23:07:05 GMT 1 Xavier said:

I am totally inexperienced when it comes to this.

There are enough programs that can record key events and mouse events and then play them back. This makes it comparatively easy to convert the CHM into a DOC or TXT if you use the clipboard.

[Xavier]

Still no joy?

[webu]

I don't have time to tackle this myself, at least not at the moment. But I don't think it's really that difficult.

[dragonjim]

There are 1,255 html files that make up the CHM help file and, at a guess, 1,400+ pages, and all the files total about 14MB in size.

When I have a moment, I will try and create a .docx file with all these pages...bear with me

[dragonjim]

I could not load it into a .docx as I do not have an up-to-date version of Word on this computer.

However, here is the concatenated file of help file htmls: link

[Xavier]

Thank you dragonjim for making this available to all!

This is 'MINT'!

Note to down-loaders: ' It took a while to download ~1 minute.  The link seemed unresponsive at times.  I think it's just because it's a big file???'

[webu]

Is this file suitable for ChatGPT to use and thus help us all?

[Xavier]

I asked the free version of ChatGPT: "Can a paid version of Chatgpt take html programming help documentation files as input to learn how to program with lets say: GFA-BASIC 32 for Windows?"

from ChatGPT...

A paid version of ChatGPT, such as the Pro version, currently does not have the ability to "learn" from files in a permanent sense, but it can certainly process and assist with HTML programming help documentation files that you provide during a session. You can upload HTML documentation, and ChatGPT can help extract information, provide explanations, and assist with learning how to program in GFA-BASIC 32 (or any other language) by parsing the information from those files.

However, this "learning" is limited to the current session and won't persist across sessions unless the files are repeatedly provided or referenced. If you want to upload documentation for analysis or explanation, you'd need to do so each time, or persist certain key insights yourself for future use.

I suppose there are other AI's out there that might be able to do more.

[dragonjim]

The html file has a tag - <!newpage> - inserted between each help item.

All someone needs to do is use that tag to split the large file into separate files, strip out the HTML code and you will have your text files.