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RE: How to access html and pdf help from xfig
- From: "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" <david dot billinghurst at comalco dot riotinto dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:10:36 +1000
- Subject: RE: How to access html and pdf help from xfig
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
>
>
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
>
>> The following changes will enable access to html and pdf help,
>> using internet explorer and win32 acrobat reader.
>>
>> [...]
>> There may be a better may, but this works work me.
> Try "cygstart %f" for both HTML and PDF, with no helper scripts. ;-)
>This will do the path translation automatically and open the application
>associated with each of the extensions in Explorer (just like
>double-clicking).
> Igor
You are right. A very neat solution.
--- Fig.orig 2003-09-24 10:44:13.507721200 +1000
+++ Fig 2003-09-25 09:56:12.139120100 +1000
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
! This is for viewing the xfig html reference.
! For netscape, this command will open the help pages in a running netscape,
! or start a new netscape if one isn't already running
-Fig.browser: netscape -remote 'openFile(%f)' || netscape %f
+Fig.browser: cygstart %f
! pdfviewer - put your favorite pdf viewer here.
! This is for viewing the xfig how-to guide and man pages
-Fig.pdfviewer: acroread %f
+Fig.pdfviewer: cygstart %f
! Spell check program - put your favorite spelling check program here.
! It must write the misspelled words to standard output.