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Conference turris::alpha_l

Title:	Alpha_L

Moderator:	WIDTH::MDAVIS

Created:	Mon Nov 01 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Apr 25 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	59
Total number of notes:	267

59.0. "Compiler online help files in HTML" by CXXC::REPETE (Rich Peterson 381-1802 ZKO2-3/N30) Thu Apr 17 1997 15:45

Unless someone objects violently or makes a better implementable
proposal very soon, DEC C V5.6 will ship its online help
in both normal help library form and also in HTML form.

A quick conversation with Steve Lionel suggested that other compilers
have not done this yet, and that the location should probably be
under SYS$HELP, the filename should not include the version number,
and it should have a facility prefix with a $ character.

So we will be modifying the top-level output of "help cc" to
say:

An HTML version of this online help is available in:

   file:/SYS$HELP/CC$HELP.HTML

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
59.1		TLE::REAGAN	All of this chaos makes perfect sense	`Tue Apr 22 1997 16:06`	3
	Cool. What version of HTML are you coding to? Anything fancy like frames, etc? -John
59.2	HTML pages, where are they?	DECC::ERICW		`Fri Apr 25 1997 14:57`	7
	You can find the pages we shipped and look at them http://tlg-www.zko.dec.com/tlg/cxxc/decc$kit/alpha/cc$help.html I am not certain exactly which version of HTML, but I suspect it is conformant to an early version. There isn't anything fancy like tables in them.