Jim Hall wrote: > 1. process the man files using roff, with output as text. I wouldn't > strip linefeeds - instead, I'd convert the ^H output so that bold and
Sorry, my mistake: I don't want to strip (CR)LF line feeds, but reverse line feeds (control characters). > underlined text appear as normal text (the FreeDOS MORE program and > other DOS "pager" programs do not interpret ^H backspacing to do bold > and underline.) I had once written a tool to automatically strip out > backspaced characters (for example, "_^HH_^He_^Hl_^Hl_^Ho" becomes > "Hello") but it's not hard to write your own. As you suggest, the > output from this could go in the "DOC" folder with the other READMEs. Sounds similar to my proposal. And there's a BSD/Linux tool for that. That's one of those things, I've already ported. ;-) But I still can't decide between DJGPP and OW. DJGPP is bloated and rigid, but has LFN support. OW is very lean and fast, but it's harder to port UNIX stuff. > 2. groff has an option to generate html output (not sure if djgpp's > groff can do this, though.) So I suppose you could process the man > files using groff's html output generator, and include those as "html > Help" pages. Please find a consensus now with Eric! :-) As I already said to Eric: We need more standards (documented)! Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
