> Peter, this looks really like we (VMS perl) are going in the right
> direction. Just wanted to let you know that I've complained probably a
> half-dozen times about the problems with the html part of install, as I
> really would like to have that working (typical user complaint); it's been
> broken forever, on nt as well as vms. Thanks for pushing on it... it will be
> great when we have all of those links fixed!
>
> Best, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the encouraging words. I think that the HREF brokenness lies
in pod2html(.com) itself though I don't have time today to hack too much.
Sorry to hear about the trouble on NT. For what it's worth the Activestate
kits come in installshield files that plunk a great deal of html onto the
system Such that "Start" -> "Activeperl" -> "Online documentation" will
fire up your default .html viewer (typically Netscape or IE). I found the
package quote slick, though I still think that Win32 documentation content
could use some elaboration and examples. At one time I wrote a pod2rtf
translator in order to generate rtf files that could be compiled into Win Help
format. This was somewhat before the great shift to html based help file
compilation that Microsoft decided to impose on the development community.
At any rate it's at:
http://www.best.com/~pvhp/win32/Pod2WinHlp-0.01.tar.gz
READMEs and loose files at:
http://www.best.com/~pvhp/win32/Pod2WinHlp/Pod2WinHlp-0.01/
I hope that helps.
Peter Prymmer
