Re: lynx-dev Re: [2.8.2dev.8] Env var data for PRINTER: pgms (w/man page entries)

[dickey]

> 
> On Sun, Dec 06, 1998, address@hidden (address@hidden) said: 
> | 
> | > Yes, but since lynx.hlp is more-or-less just an ascii rendering of the 
> | > lynx.man source, I assume [yes, I know] that it is generated when lynx 
> | > is packaged for distribution.  Is that not correct? 
> | 
> | no - I don't think there's a script for that. (The .hlp file is 
> VMS-specific, 
> | and cannot be generated by a trivial script - the section numbering is a 
> | gotcha). 
>  
> Ouch ...!  Doesn't that make it difficult to keep the two doc's in sync? 

they're not updated that often.
  
> Given all the various packages that run on both platforms out there, surely 
> such a utility must already exist somewhere (no, I personally don't know of 
> one, but if I were a VMS'er, I'd be looking for a "man2hlp" utility, or some 
> such). 

again, there's not a lot of VMS tools out there - and not simple to distinguish
a section from a subsection in nroff output.
>  
>  
> | ( now I suppose someone will sit up all night and make a perl script ;-) 
>  
> Not I ... I don't know perl all that well, nor the expected VMS format 
> (other than the obvious). 

it's just the level number in front of each title, followed by the formatted
paragraph.
  
> But what I will do, is attach a patch for a literal inclusion of the added 
> ENVIRONMENT section from the .man file, which I *think* is suitable for the 
> VMS .hlp file. 

ok.
  
> /kim 

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