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Number   :  3260
Date     :  2002-12-12
Author   :  CBFalconer
Subject  :  Re: Preserving Generation Backups
Size(KB) :  1


Kan Yabumoto wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> features, added documentations will be a burden to all,
> especially for new users. At least this will be true until
> we come up with a decent help system (.CHM file) and
> GUI-based self-help (windows program that helps you look-up
> features in XXCOPY, and possibly synthesize one-line batch
> file for convenience).

Don't do it, at least not to the exclusion of text based
documentation. Text can be rapidly and conveniently searched,
printed, etc. by such utilities as grep. The help system files
cannot usually be easily printed without much paper wastage.

The texinfo system from DJGPP may be useful. Among other things
it allows a master file to be prepared which can be easily
converted into .info, .ps, .pdf, and .html files. Both the .info
and .html formats allow easy cross-linking, and the .html format
is especially easy to output onto various page sizes. (My most
common printing size is logically 7.9x13 inch pages, which are
reduced to fit onto one half of an 8.5x11 sheet for booklets).

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