With the facilities provided by Vermont Views, implementing your own help system is very easy. You prepare the help file with any editor, read the contents into a memory file, and call the memory file browse function. The memory file can operate on keywords so that only one section of the help file is displayed.
Alternatively, you could create a menu-driven help system, in which the user is initially shown context-sensitive help but can select an item from a menu to see more information or to run a small tutorial program.
If you do replace the help system, you will have write your own event function and install it in the appropriate event tables. Also, make sure that you remove kd_help() and kc_help() from each event table.
Reading Help Files Into Memory
Changing the Contents of a Memory File