Help program update


To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
From "Arno W. Peters" <a.w.peters@ieee.org>
Date Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:27:05 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:49:07PM +0200, widlok wrote:
> 
>     One more fix that I forgot to mark is 'help' problems. In main.c
> and help.c there is a global variable hlp_filelist. This is
> initialized to "ngspice", and this is the problem: in ngspice.txt
> file all sub topics are prefixed with SPICE text, and help* routines
> are looking for NGSPICE. Quick fix is to change hlp_filelist to
> "spice" again and rename ngspice.txt to spice.txt. This works. Some
> help*() relay on numbers of characters in the SPICE SUBTOPIC lines
> in spice.txt, so changing this directly in the file does not work

Actually, I have changed all occurances of SPICE: to NGSPICE: and have
successfully tested the help system with

  $ SPICE_HELP_DIR=. ./help

I checked this into CVS.


Regards,
-- 
Arno

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