| From: | Olaf Barthel |
| Date: | 13 Aug 2000 at 14:56:39 |
| Subject: | Re: RKMs (was Re: iffparse.library) |
On Aug 12 Lee (Lee Procter) wrote:
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>
>
> >From: "David McMinn" <dave@satanicdreams.com>
> >Reply-To: amiga-c@egroups.com
> >To: amiga-c@egroups.com
> >Subject: Re: [amiga-c] RKMs (was Re: iffparse.library)
> >Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:16:32 +0100
> >
> >Hi Lee
> >
> > > I considered doing this but it would entail editing the guide documents
> >to not
> > > open from CD. It would be easy to write proggy for this if when copied
> >to hard
> > > drive say: dh3:misc/docs . You preserved to structure. Then you could
> >write
> > > proggy to open all files in archive and replace CD0: with dh3:misc/docs.
> >Then it
> > > should work. I avent got round to doing it yet:P
> >
> >Would it? Why would they hardcode the device name or volume name into the
> >guide
> >files? Its more hassle. All the pathnames will be relative.
> >
> >Just copy the docs and as long as you have preserved the directory
> >structure,
> >it'll work.
> >
>
> I tried this and it asks for CD. I think they done it to prevent the docs
> being spread without purchasing CD.
Nope. The 'original' RKM text in AmigaGuide format relied upon the
ENV:AmigaGuide path variable to be configured. Otherwise the links between
the individual documents would not have worked. Fixing up the links is
a difficult process, in particular if you have to do it manually. I expect
that this is what was done for the Amiga Developer CD 1.2. The 2.1 version
should work right out of the box, though. Before I put it onto the CD I
kept tinkering with it and kept it on my hard disk drive. All the links
should work as they are and not require you to keep the CD-ROM around.