this is being contributed by someone who wishes to remain
anonymous....

in this person's 'world' this script is called webhelp.  do
note the last comment....

PARM topic="help" subtopic=""
OPTION NOLIST

# MPE command file to run the internet browser on the users
# PC and display the MPE help page for the requested topic.
# Must be running Reflection, Minisoft or similar terminal
emulator.
# The MPE help web pages are generated by running Mark
Bixby's
# cicat2html.pl perl script.
# Adjust the setvar command for your web server name.

if '!topic'='?' or '!topic'='' then
 echo MPE Command file ![basename('!HPFILE')] -- Version
A.010.01 2000/10/11
 echo Runs the browser from your emulator to display
 echo the MPE HELP text in web format for the requested MPE
command.
 echo You should pass an MPE command or topic as the 1st
parameter.
 echo Example: ![basename('!HPFILE')] showvar
 echo Example: ![basename('!HPFILE')] showvar parms
 echo Example: ![basename('!HPFILE')] functions
 echo Example: ![basename('!HPFILE')] variables
 echo Example: ![basename('!HPFILE')] " "       (lists all
commands)
 return
endif

setvar webtopic "http://aih969/cicat/![dwns("!topic")].html"

if "!subtopic" <> "" then
 setvar webtopic "!webtopic#!subtopic"
endif

# this is a command to your pc....
echo ![chr(27)]&oF SHELL "start !webtopic"

deletevar webtopic
-----------------------

i never realized these cicat pages had internal links!
pretty cool.  thanks to mark and 'the unknown scripter'
:-)            - d

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