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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: Zsh list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: install help files?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:52:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518105233.0f598338@news01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18960.46257.653984.791743@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:06:57 -0400
Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net> wrote:
> 
> Would there be any objection to building and installing the help
> files, and compiling in a value of HELPDIR pointing to the installed
> location?

That would be quite sensible.  I think the problem of deciding how to get
plain text out of the manual pages on each system is a bit messy, and
probably needs a few goes to get right.  Maybe there's an alternative route
rather than via nroff files.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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2009-05-18  1:06 Greg Klanderman
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