From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Mon Aug 25 07:33:16 1997
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:33:16 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: Re: Extensions .R and .Rd (in base/funs/ and base/man/ )
In-Reply-To: <x2203lp3kz.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk>
References: <199708230410.QAA28257@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
 <x2203lp3kz.fsf@bush.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <199708250633.IAA14016@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> Peter Dalgaard BSA writes:

> Robert Gentleman <rgentlem@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
>> 
>> Whatever extensions are decided on for any of the R stuff it is important
>> to realize that Windows (3.11) only lets you have one dot (.) and then
>> only 3 characters. The base name should be only 8 characters long as well.
>> Since I'm worrying about it a little these days I just want to put my 2 cents
>> worth in on this topic.
>> 
>> It is looking like a real pain to translate the current set of html files to
>> this format which means that there is going to be some real work required in
>> getting a 3.11 version going.

> Is it possible that the HTML->RTF->WinHelp generation pointer I sent
> you would work faster? Point being that you could generate the RTF
> file on a machine with long filenames yielding a file with *internal"
> links, no restrictions on names, and in turn a .HLP file - which we
> want to have anyway.

That would be nice ... names in RApril.zip such as
	chisquare.test.html
won't work in 3.11 anyway ...

-k
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R-alpha: Re: Extensions .R and .Rd (in base/funs/ and base/man/ )
Kurt Hornik