Hi Friedrich
Some older post.
I am afraid I didn't test the
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else
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/index.html
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At least I can't find anything about it and this doesn't work on MSwindows
if the pspp.html directory and the html files are not generated. Not a big
deal as I include the html files, but it would be nice if this worked too.
Have fun
2016-05-26 13:27 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]>:
> Hi Harry,
>
> i did some research regarding the start of the default html browser on
> windows via
> „start“. I have commited a new patch
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/?id=
> 970c24cc433e6d87cb3c502b2d2bdce6775a3d3e
>
> which hopefully works on windows also.
>
> The help system will look for help resources with the following priorities:
>
> First: The yelp system, then
> If the directory <docpath>/pspp.html exists
> Try the local html help files via <docpath>/pspp.html/<helppage>
> .html,
> else
> http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/index.html
>
> To install the local html help pages (not the single page version), you
> have to run
>
> make html
> make install-html
>
> This will produce <psppinstallt>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html and
> other html
> files in that directory. (Hopefully on windows also with suffix .html …)
>
> Friedrich
>
> Am 25.05.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Harry Thijssen <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi Friedrich
>
> 2016-05-25 8:10 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi Harry,
>>
>> thanks for testing the two patches on windows!
>>
>> The help function is trying the following steps
>>
>> a) starting help via yelp -> this will not work in windows
>> b) Opening a local html file -> Depends on the existencs of a local
>> pspp.html directory in the doc path
>> I guess you have the local html installed somewhere
>> <yourpsppinstall>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html for the start
>> page
>> c) Open the help via the gnu pspp internet site
>>
>> You could help me debugging this with
>>
>> Could you tell me the path of the pspp.html directory where you have the
>> local html files?
>>
>
> I changed my procedure and copied the file pspp.html from Ben's daily
> tarball builds to <yourpsppinstall>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html
>
>>
>> Could you try if
>>
>> start file:///<yourlocalpath>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html
>>
>
> I have just 1 file copied from Bens daily builds.
>
> "<yourlocalpath>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html"
>
> works for me in a command shell. Even with a space in the file name.
> Surprisingly / or \ works both. ?????
>
> will open a browser with the help page? Could you send me the exact syntax?
>> Maybe with quotes? Maybe with spaces replaced by %20? I agree
>> that your guess with „Program Files“ indicates the problem.
>>
>
> With quotes and spaces but without start.
>
>>
>> Could you move or delete the pspp.html directory and test if psppire can
>> reach the internet help? I think there are no spaces in the url. It will
>> try
>>
>> start http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/index.html
>
>
> In a command shell exact this line works INCLUDING start. But when started
> from the help page in pspp it is not shown.
>
>
>> Does this work on windows?
>>
>> Friedrich
>>
>
> It might be easier if I apply the patches and run a test. More info can be
> displayed to figure out how MSWindows handles this. So we can figure out
> how to handle this.
>
> Have fun
>
>
>
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