> 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. 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. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.
