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On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > I'm thinking of writing a man page for setup.exe explaining the > > basics of how it works and that it is currently the preferred > > way of installing/updating packages and documenting any command-line > > options. Does the current http://cygwin.com/setup.exe have any? > > I see several in CVS, but they are spread out in several files and > > many checkins, is there any way to have it spit out a list? > > > It would be good if this could be done in such a way that it could be hooked > into the regular Windows help systems, i.e. WinHelp and/or HTMLHelp. That way > it could be attached to a "?" button on Setup's GUI where people could ignore it > immediately, instead of being a man page that people have to figure out how to > install before they can ignore it. Or better yet, both man and Help. > About all I know about any of this though is that HTMLHelp takes > pretty-much-standard HTML and compiles it into a single file, which you then run > with a spawned HTMLHelp viewer, which works well. Oh, and that WinHelp (the > older system) takes some bastardized RTF freakshow and spits out a > difficult-to-use mess. I don't know if there are any Free HTMLHelp compilers > around, or if we particularly care, but MS's is free for the downloading, and it > works OK in a build script. There is a docbook->man tool, and IIRC a docbook->htmlHelp converter as well. That would be wirth investigating IMO. Rob -- Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
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