On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Overview --------Windowze has 2 help system versions ("*.hlp" files and "*.chm" files). Un*x based systems have "man" (doesn't have links, discarted, sorry). I heard that *Linux (GNU/Linux, and others) doesn't have one.
The man pages are not the only help format in Unix. In Linux/Unix there are also the "info pages" , which do support links. Some info pages also have an index ( i'm not sure when this index is generated) . The program is called 'info' . Info can be used to acces the regular man pages, too. (plus you can go to the related items in SEE ALSO by simply going on the item and pressing enter). By googling for more info about info, i've found that Info is in fact the "official documentation format of the GNU project" : http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Info might be really interesting : it is possible to generate several help formats from a single source : html, pdf, info, dvi, xml . Adrian Maier _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
