The Good ol' Borland Help Files

What is the point of this? What is the point of recreating a help file system from a mid-ninties compiler?

It's actually more than just nostalgia. Even currently when I code, I feel a little lost without them. Except for some functions that I use so often that I have the arguement-order memorized, I need to look these things up.

Honestly, I've been using these help files for so long that I'm not sure if they're actually really good or if I'm simply just used to them.

I actually do still find them useful. I mean, yeah, compilers have obviously gotten better, and newer language features added, but a lot of things are still around: most of the string.h library. I still need to refer to the right function for my need "Should I use strchr(), strcspn()?" "What are the printf format specifiers again?"

For the Header Files Summary, I left out the C++ headers for now. I don't code code in C++ (and honestly don't much care to) but I may add them later for completeness.

Below are some screen shots from the old help file system.

And my attempt to recreate it is here:

Borland C++ Help Contents