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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:31:21 +1300
From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz
Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables
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On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 02:23:45AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> The second task is to construct a unified, sorted helpfile from two 
> input files.  The helpfiles consist of records delimited thus:
> 
> ##...
> # T<topic> [S<subtopic>] D<multiword description>
> ...data
> #
> 
> The records from each of the two files need to be sorted into topic 
> order, with every subtopic record sorted in following its topic record, 
> eg.
> 
> Tfoo
> Tfoo Sbar
> Tfoo Sbaz
> Tfish
> ...
> 
> The input files are /sys/boot/common/help.common and 
> /sys/boot/i386/loader/i386.help (i386) or
> /sys/boot/alpha/boot2/alpha.help (alpha).

Should the resulting helpfile be in the same format as the help.i386 and
help.alpha files?

I'm presuming the answer is "yes" and I am steaming ahead :)

Joe

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