Message-Id: <202209241737.28OHb3SK020397@delorie.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:28:57 +0200
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU help2man 1.49.2 uploaded.
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This is a port of GNU help2man 1.49.2 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  help2man is a perl script to create simple man pages from the --help
  and --version output of programs.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - There are no DJGPP specific user visible changes to the script.

  - Because most of the file names are not 8.3 clean you will need LFN
    support to build the products.

  - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE and
    MSDOS 6.22.  There is no guarantee that this may work on any other
    DOS-like OS.

  - To use help2man, a DJGPP port of bash and Perl must be installed.


  As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are
  stored in the "djgpp" directory.  The sources have been configured to
  be build in the "0build" directory.  If for some reason it does not
  work for you, delete its contents and configure from scratch again.

  Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.


  Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes
  from the last port (GNU help2man 1.47) to this one:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Version 1.49		February 14, 2022

  * Use @samp{} around the option in the menu description for "--help
    recommendations" to avoid rendering the -- as endash.
  * Don't translate @documentencoding.
  * Fall back to forking iconv for encodings which are not supported by
    Perl's Encode module.

Version 1.48		February 6, 2021

  * Add Serbian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese (simplified)
    translations of info documentation.
  * Add Tamil and Chinese (simplified) translations.
  * Move table of contents to the top of the texi file so that it
    appears in the correct location in the html page.
  * Use the package name and version as the default for --source (was
    program).
  * Support packages in version strings without the GNU or Free prefix.
  * Allow an optional second dash to separate the package name from the
    version for multi-word packages: "program - package name - version".
  * Suppress creation of an empty pkglibdir when nls is disabled.
  * Fix ordering of "other" sections in manual page.
  * Use POSIX compliant TZ when setting UTC (thanks to Paul Eggert).



-------------------------------------------------------------------------------




  The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced
  using djdev206 (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2022-09-10):


    GNU help2man 1.49 binary, info and man format documentation:
    http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/h2m1492b.zip

    GNU help2man 1.49 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
    http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/h2m1492d.zip

    GNU help2man 1.49 source:
    http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/h2m1492s.zip



  Send GNU help2man specific bug reports to <bug-help2man AT gnu DOT org>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
  to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.


Enjoy.

    Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>