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Re: install help files?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: Zsh list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: install help files?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:52:33 +0100
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On Sun, 17 May 2009 21:06:57 -0400
Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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