[Python-Dev] Help command

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Paul Prescod wrote:

> Okay, I wrote the help command today. The transcript before was just a
> Microsoft-style "Technology Preview." I'm pretty happy with the extent
> to which I can pull in HTML and get lots of content from Fred's HTML
> distribution immediately. The only trick is finding out where the
> documentation is. I know that Unix users have a variety of installation
> patterns and I have no idea if this works at all on the Macintosh.
> Please help!

In a Red Hat installation, they don't install the HTML docs at all.
But then, you don't want to know what I think of Red Hat (demonstrating
Python on Red Hat systems usually requires me to resort to slight-of-hand
tricks every now and then)

In a Debian installation, they live in /usr/doc/python/...
(In short, have it a compiled in default. Whoever packages it will decide)

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