Information Presentation Facility

OS/2 1.2 Command Reference using IPF

IBM Information Presentation Facility was introduced with OS/2 Version 1.2. It is based on a subset of Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML).

Development Tools

• IBM HyperWrite
• IBM Hyperwise

Compiler

• csIPFC (Shareware)
• IPFC - Compiler for INF and HLP formatted online reference and help manuals.
• wipfc - OpenWatcom IPF compiler

Converter

• HyperAct HLPDK/PA

Viewer

• VIEW - included with OS/2
• NewView - viewer that can also extract resources
• XView - viewer for Windows

Articles

• OS/2 2.0 Information Presentation Facility (IPF) Data Format by Carl Hauser and Marcus Gröber (Jul 1993)
• Inside INF by Peter Childs (Sep 1995)

Publications

• IBM OS/2 Warp IPF Programming Guide (G25H-7110) [1]