Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Alain M. wrote: Most of the tme I use DOSEMU, so I can use Firefox, but I once tested the htmlhelp for some freedos docs and it is good enough! I think, you didn't get the point: Reading even the smallest manual would always require HTMLHELP then. Yes, you could also use type or more, but HTML

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-11 Thread Alain M.
Robert Riebisch escreveu: Most of the tme I use DOSEMU, so I can use Firefox, but I once tested the htmlhelp for some freedos docs and it is good enough! I think, you didn't get the point: Reading even the smallest manual would always require HTMLHELP then. Yes, you could also use type or

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Riebisch
Alain M. wrote: I think, you didn't get the point: Reading even the smallest manual would always require HTMLHELP then. Yes, you could also use type or more, but HTML tag can be very annoying. So I don't like the idea. I don't understand why you disagree... I told you above. Using

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-10 Thread Robert Riebisch
Alain M. wrote: 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! :-) I vote

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-10 Thread Alain M.
Robert Riebisch escreveu: Alain M. wrote: 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

[Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi! I'm porting some small tools to (Free)DOS using latest Open Watcom C/C++. Of course, all have documentation in standard man pages. ;-) AFAIK FreeDOS doesn't come with a man page reader. So what's the best method to make documentation accessible to DOS users? My idea is to put original groff

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert, Of course, all have documentation in standard man pages. ;-) That is not standard, that is Unix ;-) AFAIK FreeDOS doesn't come with a man page reader. So what's the best method to make documentation accessible to DOS users? We have the HTMLHELP system. You should contact Fritz

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Hall
I think you have two options: 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 underlined text appear as normal text (the FreeDOS MORE program and other DOS pager programs do not interpret ^H backspacing to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: AFAIK FreeDOS doesn't come with a man page reader. So what's the best method to make documentation accessible to DOS users? We have the HTMLHELP system. You should contact Fritz Mueller Is fritz.mueller [at] mail.com still valid? to have your pages integrated into the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Auer
Is fritz.mueller [at] mail.com still valid? Yes, but why not ask off-list? What zip contents? HTMLHELP can show HTML pages directly while they are still in a ZIP. But of course you can override by putting unzipped HTMLs on disk. be okay to have the ASCII version in doc/PACKAGENAME/*.txt

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: Is fritz.mueller [at] mail.com still valid? Yes, but why not ask off-list? In contrast to you, I don't like off-list discussions. ;-) What zip contents? HTMLHELP can show HTML pages directly while they are still in a ZIP. But of course you can override by putting

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Alain M.
Robert Riebisch escreveu: 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! :-) I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Hall
Just tested it on my Linux system (don't have FreeDOS loaded at the mo') using groff -man -Thtml .1 .html ..then viewing with elinks (text-only web browser.) You get a table of contents at the top of the page, but the page itself is very readable. Looks great. -jh On Wed, Apr 9,