Contents for Siaghelp Help

Siaghelp in its former incarnation was nothing more than a rudimentary text browser which read a text file and allowed scrolling up and down using the arrow keys. It was eventually meant to have more features, but was thrown together in an effort to deliver some sort of on-line help for Siag.

However, the obvious solution is to use a html browser because of the hypertext capabilities. Writing my own was pointless as there are already numerous useful implementations. The one I've chosen is Chimera, which is written by John Kilburg. Chimera uses the Athena widget set; for this version I have used the Athena 3D widgets, giving it a more modern look.

There is nothing magic about the Chimera program, any html browser will do. The environment variable SIAGHELP can be set to the name of another browser, thus overriding the default.


Ulric Eriksson - January 1997 - ulric@edu.stockholm.se