X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/8ff3788cdba63b1ef90132a3b62aafe1232ce438..64469eb46f042bea1c12996d69c5fedd0bf44510:/doc/doc-txt/README diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/README b/doc/doc-txt/README index 92fc17827..a019ab83c 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/README +++ b/doc/doc-txt/README @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README,v 1.2 2005/06/27 18:32:20 tom Exp $ - Exim Documentation ------------------ @@ -15,42 +13,31 @@ This directory should contain the following files: Exim4.upgrade information about upgrading from release 3.33 to 4.00 dbm.discuss.txt discussion of DBM libraries filter.txt specification of filter file contents - pcre.txt specification of PCRE regular expression library - pcretest.txt specification of the PCRE test program spec.txt main specification of Exim - -The .txt files are straight ASCII text; spec.txt and filter.txt have change -bars on the right for changes from the previous editions. + experimental-spec.txt specification of experimental features PostScript ---------- The Exim specifications are also available in PostScript. This is not included -in the main distribution because not everyone wants it and it doesn't diff -well, causing patches to be very much larger than necessary. - -Wherever you got this distribution from should also have carried another file -called exim-postscript-.tar.gz which contains the PostScript -documentation. When de-tarred it creates a directory called -exim-postscript- into which it places the files doc/filter.ps and -doc/spec.ps. +in the main distribution because not everyone wants it. Wherever you got this +distribution from should also have carried another file called +exim-postscript-.tar.gz which contains the PostScript documentation. +When de-tarred it creates a directory called exim-postscript- into +which it places the files doc/filter.ps and doc/spec.ps. HTML ---- -A special conversion from the original sources via Texinfo into HTML is done to -create the online documentation at http://www.exim.org. This set of files is -also available for installation on other servers. Wherever you got this -distribution from should also have carried another file called -exim-html-.tar.gz which contains the HTML documentation. When -de-tarred it creates a directory called exim-html- into which it -places a directory called doc/html containing the set of HTML files. The kick -off points are: - - html/spec.html - specification (framed) - html/filter_toc.html - filter docs +A conversion from the original sources into HTML is done to create the online +documentation at http://www.exim.org. This set of files is also available for +installation on other servers. Wherever you got this distribution from should +also have carried another file called exim-html-.tar.gz which contains +the HTML documentation. When de-tarred it creates a directory called +exim-html- into which it places a directory called doc/html containing +the set of HTML files. The kick off point is the traditional index.html. PDF @@ -71,14 +58,8 @@ available in the distribution file exim-texinfo-.gz. When de-tarred it creates a directory called exim-texinfo- into which it places the files doc/filter.texinfo and doc/spec.texinfo. -The conversion process is automatic (a Perl script) so the result isn't as nice -as hand-maintained TeXinfo files would be, and some information is lost; -for example, TeXinfo does not support the use of change bars. - -There is cgi-bin perl script called info2www which converts info files to -html on the fly so that the same info files can be read using the "info" -program, or from emacs, or from your favourite browser. This is available from - -http://www.ericsson.nl/info2www/info2www.html +The conversion process is automatic, so the result isn't as nice as +hand-maintained TeXinfo files would be, and some information is lost; for +example, TeXinfo does not support the use of change bars. -- End --