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Subject: Re: [zippo-workers] Re: a library for use with G77 which includes 
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Personally I think that supporting 'post-install-script' is the best
> > > plan.
> >
> > I can only say that it is very annoying to type the same (quite long)
> > command line for install-info each time I prepare a DSM.
> 
> OK, what about following: there is somewhere in zippo sources perl
> script for creating DSM template. I think it is possible to extend that
> script with ability to generate required install-info commands and put
> it into binary distribution.

That was the idea - to take the leg-work out of writing DSMs. It's a
pretty basic hack right now. The script is scripts/dsmgen.sh in the zippo
source distribution. Maybe it would be better re-written as a program with
a Turbovision interface?

I think enhancing this program would keep me and Eli happy, as you
suggest. ;)

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe
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