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| 714.1 | Hello... | LDP::WEAVER | Laboratory Data Products/Science | Tue May 02 1989 18:40 | 2 |
| Surely someone has some quick answers for this???
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| 714.2 | Ultrix Help Library organization | CASEE::RAYNER | Doug -- CLT/CASEE, Valbonne, France | Wed May 03 1989 04:25 | 29 |
| A Help "library" on Ultrix is a directory. The top-level topics in the
library are the names of the files in that directory. Each file
contains the text for the top-level topic, and its sub-topics.
> What type of file specification do I have to give to the Help widget
> on Ultrix to get it to find my help text in the current directory?
> I tried ./my_help.hlp and ~/dir/my_help.hlp with no success.
First of all, it is unlikely that you want the current directory to be
the help library since you will likely have files there that are not
help topics. It might make sense to use a sub-directory of the current
directory as the help library. In that case the help library name is
simply the name of the directory. For example, the help library for
application Foo (library name "FooHelp") might be organized as follows:
./FooHelp/Overview (Overview and various sub-topics)
./FooHelp/About (Single About topic)
./FooHelp/CSH (Context Sensitive Help topics)
> Is the help file on Ultrix really a straight ASCII file?
Each top-level topic (e.g. file) is a text file which must conform to
the VMS Help Library syntax with special extensions provided by
DECwindows Help. This is documented in the VMS DECwindows Guide to
Applications Programming (and, I assume, in the equivalent Ultrix
document).
P.S. Sorry for the delayed answer -- we're 6 hours ahead of you!
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| 714.3 | "." | HGOVC::KENBERKUN | People that melt | Wed May 03 1989 07:11 | 5 |
| Actually, I just used "." and it worked fine under Ultrix. VMS
isn't too happy about it...
Ken B.
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| 714.4 | Different mechanisms for different platforms | RTL::GRASS | Steve Grass | Wed May 03 1989 10:13 | 9 |
| > Actually, I just used "." and it worked fine under Ultrix. VMS
> isn't too happy about it...
That's because VMS expects a file spec (.HLB file) and Ultrix expects a
directory (where the .HLP files are).
steve
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| 714.5 | | LDP::WEAVER | Laboratory Data Products/Science | Wed May 03 1989 12:53 | 6 |
| Thanks, it would be nice if the Ultrix WS Guide to Writing Applications
using XUI Toolkit Widgets was a little clearer on all of this.
Thanks again,
-Dave
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