TMFs?

[Stefan Bellon]

Dear OSLib maintainer,

I'm copying here a discussion that took place on zap-devel regarding
the OSLib StrongHelp manual. The main problem started with the fact
that the OSLib StrongHelp manual is not searchable from within Zap. The
result of the discussion was ...

Christian Ludlam wrote:
> On 8 Sep Stefan Bellon wrote:
> > Christian Ludlam wrote:
> > > I don't think this is the only problem, but could you have a look
> > > inside your OSLib manual and see if all the files are untyped?
> > > Mine are, and StrongHelp only looks for files typed as Text when
> > > it's doing an 'F1' lookup.
> > 
> > Yes, you're right, all files inside the OSLib manual are untyped
> > ones that have "00000000 00000000" as load and exec address instead
> > of a filetype.
> > 
> > Is this a "bug" regarding StrongHelp specification and should I
> > file a bug report against it on the OSLib list or is it a problem
> > with the StrongHelp application which you can fix?

> StrongHelp deliberately only looks for Text files when doing its 'F1'
> search, so that manual authors can provide some keywords and hide
> other 'internal' documents. For example, inside the OS manual you can
> look up OS_AMBControl (because it's a Text file) but not OS_areas
> (because it's Data). All files are searched with the Freetext search.

> Previous OSLib manuals had the proper type information, so presumably
> it's a problem with their new Linux build system.

Replies to oslib-user at compton.nu only, I think.

-- 
Stefan Bellon