setup.exe man page

Joshua Daniel Franklin joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com
Tue Mar 18 03:18:00 GMT 2003


--- Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of writing a man page for setup.exe explaining the
> > > basics of how it works and that it is currently the preferred
> > > way of installing/updating packages and documenting any command-line
> > > options. Does the current http://cygwin.com/setup.exe have any?
> > > I see several in CVS, but they are spread out in several files and
> > > many checkins, is there any way to have it spit out a list?
> >
> > 
> > It would be good if this could be done in such a way that it could be
> hooked
> > into the regular Windows help systems, i.e. WinHelp and/or HTMLHelp.  That
> way
> > it could be attached to a "?" button on Setup's GUI where people could
> ignore it
> > immediately, instead of being a man page that people have to figure out how
> to
> > install before they can ignore it.
> 
> Or better yet, both man and Help.
> 
> > About all I know about any of this though is that HTMLHelp takes
> > pretty-much-standard HTML and compiles it into a single file, which you
> then run
> > with a spawned HTMLHelp viewer, which works well.  Oh, and that WinHelp
> (the
> > older system) takes some bastardized RTF freakshow and spits out a
> > difficult-to-use mess.  I don't know if there are any Free HTMLHelp
> compilers
> > around, or if we particularly care, but MS's is free for the downloading,
> and it
> > works OK in a build script.
> 
> There is a docbook->man tool, and IIRC a docbook->htmlHelp converter as
> well. That would be wirth investigating IMO.

I've seen the docbook->man before, I'll have to investigate further for
the docbook->htmlHelp. I feel a new chapter of the User's Guide coming on...

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