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Re: Installing windows help files



Bernd Ernesti wrote:
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:43:33PM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   rillig
Date:           Sun Oct 14 17:43:33 UTC 2007

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/databases/mysql5-client: Makefile PLIST

Log Message:
The file manual.chm is installed additionally, since it is much more
comfortable to browse than the GNU info file.


: less manual.chm "manual.chm" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
: file manual.chm
manual.chm: MS Windows HtmlHelp Data

Why is it much more comfortable to install and browse a 5MB file on
an UNIX system?

I tried it with kchmviewer, and compared to the info file, the chm file even has a usable index. And nice markup. Colors. A table of contents browser. You can click on a link to follow it.

Unfortunately, the MySQL distfile doesn't ship with the documentation in HTML or PDF format, which I had preferred over chm.

Investigating further, I found the HTML version on the MySQL homepage, with some obscure licensing terms, but I think they are covered by the pkgsrc distribution methods.

I can import that instead of having the CHM file.

Roland



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