eg(1) Version 1.00 eg(1)
Expert Guide Expert Guide
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NAME
eg - Expert Guide. A Norton Guide Reader.
SYNOPSIS
eg [options] [norton-guide]
DESCRIPTION
eg is a text mode, full screen Norton Guide reader.
OPTIONS
-h Display help text.
-p guide-path
Sets the search path in which eg should look for Norton Guides
when building it's guide database. If you specify the path on the
command line it overrides the EG_PATH environment variable.
-s Use a "sane" display. Expert Guide will attempt to guess if it
can use the fullest range of IBM extended characters when
displaying the contents of a guide entry. Somtimes it may guess
wrong. If it does, pass -s to force it into a "sane" display
mode.
-v Display version details.
ENVIRONMENT
EG_PATH
Holds the path in which eg looks for Norton Guides when you ask
for a directory listing. This should be a "normal" path with each
directory location seperated with a ":" (or a ";" if running
under DOS).
NOTES
The first time you run eg you will need to point it to a specific
Norton Guide. After that eg will remember the guide you last read and
the entry in that guide you were last reading.
BUGS
Lots of Unix environment issues to think about?
Can't display full IBM character set when compiled for Dos (slang
problem?).
Screen output and refresh could possibly be improved?
No support for SIGWINCH.
The menu code is a little ropey, this needs to be re-done.
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eg(1) Version 1.00 eg(1)
Expert Guide Expert Guide
Tue Jul 4 14:18:48 2000
Some non-fatal errors still drop out of eg. Error reporting needs to
be improved.
Filename (tab) completion doesn't work too well under Dos when drive
letters are involved.
TODO
o Guide wide searching. o Re-write based around a Norton Guide
reading library. o Using the library write a gnome oriented version
of EG.
AUTHOR
Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>
HOMEPAGE
http://www.hagbard.demon.co.uk/
http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/
FILES
~/.egrc
User configuration file.
~/.eglast
Remembers last read file and last position in that file.
~/.egdir
Norton guide directory "cache".
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