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- Short: Splits OS3.5 HTML manuals into chapters
- Author: Ron Goertz
- Uploader: goertz@earthlink.net (http://home.earthlink.net/~goertz/Ron/)
- Type: util/rexx
- Replaces: util/rexx/SplitOSDocs
-
- This ARexx macro will copy the OS 3.5 HTML manuals from your OS 3.5 CD to your
- harddrive, splitting the manuals into chapters as it does so. The indexes and
- tables of content are also updated.
-
- Note that the original HTML documents are stored in four different formats,
- requiring this macro to be fairly specific to this version of the docs. The
- conversion of the Workbench manual takes about 27 minutes by itself, most of the
- time spent converting the document to a standard format. I can't guarantee the
- conversion process will work with non-English versions of the documentation.
-
- WHY: Keep your browser from fainting at the prospect of loading 1MB HTML files
- Speed up access to the parts of the manual you're interested in
- Allow you to correct the numerous mistakes in the HTML docs
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- WHY NOT: You don't have 3.5 MB of free disk space
- You don't have a legal copy of the OS 3.5 upgrade
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- REQUIREMENTS: A legally obtained OS 3.5 upgrade CD
- OS 3.5 installed
- 3,474,427 bytes of free disk space
- About 40 minutes. On a 25 MHz -040:
- It took 4.55 minutes to convert the arexx manual.
- It took 9.37 minutes to convert the dos manual.
- It took 0.76 minutes to convert the harddisk manual.
- It took 0.31 minutes to convert the installation manual.
- It took 27.20 minutes to convert the workbench manual.
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- USAGE: From a shell, type: rx <path>SplitOSDocs.rexx
- Two file requesters will appear
- The first one asks for the original (CD) files
- The second one asks for the destination directory
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 6877 2190 68.1% 01-Nov-99 14:53:14 SplitOSDocs.rexx
- 1805 847 53.0% 13-Nov-99 14:25:00 SplitOSDocs.txt
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- 8682 3037 65.0% 26-Nov-99 19:53:32 2 files
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