Re: Cntl + Help Man/ST-Guide Referencer

[Stanislav Opichal <opichals@alpha.inf.upol.cz>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> This is already implemented, so if you're using qed then all you have
> to do is to convert the man-files :-) The downside is that this only
> searches through keywords, and not the entire text.

Yes, but I think most of people know english except some words, so this
way is the best you can currently do without any special coding.

I have converted my man pages (only the base KGMD installed) into HYP and
it has 1.2MB, so thats not really bad.
The only problem I had was that I dont know how to tell groff (or troff I
always forget) not to make that stupid page counting, so I had to write
two scripts: the first to convert all man%d to cat%d, after tah I used the
mam2stg.ttp from ST-Guide utils and the second script, which excludes the
page separators from the whole file. ( scripts are in Perl )
So it took me about 1 day to convert it.

Anyway, that idea to use those Internet translation machines wasn't
that bad. It would be even more usefull if you have such a tool for atari
locally on your machine. Does anybody have similar program?

Regards

Stan

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