doc/doc-txt/README

   1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/README,v 1.1 2004/10/07 15:04:35 ph10 Exp $
   2
   3 Exim Documentation
   4 ------------------
   5
   6 This directory should contain the following files:
   7
   8   ChangeLog        most recent log of all changes to Exim
   9   NewStuff         features that haven't made it to the manual yet,
  10                    and/or a list of newly-added functionality
  11   OptionLists.txt  lists of all Exim's options
  12   README           this document
  13   README.SIEVE     notes on the Sieve support
  14   Exim3.upgrade    information about upgrading from release 2.12 to 3.00
  15   Exim4.upgrade    information about upgrading from release 3.33 to 4.00
  16   dbm.discuss.txt  discussion of DBM libraries
  17   filter.txt       specification of filter file contents
  18   pcre.txt         specification of PCRE regular expression library
  19   pcretest.txt     specification of the PCRE test program
  20   spec.txt         main specification of Exim
  21
  22 The .txt files are straight ASCII text; spec.txt and filter.txt have change
  23 bars on the right for changes from the previous editions.
  24
  25
  26 PostScript
  27 ----------
  28
  29 The Exim specifications are also available in PostScript. This is not included
  30 in the main distribution because not everyone wants it and it doesn't diff
  31 well, causing patches to be very much larger than necessary.
  32
  33 Wherever you got this distribution from should also have carried another file
  34 called exim-postscript-<version>.tar.gz which contains the PostScript
  35 documentation. When de-tarred it creates a directory called
  36 exim-postscript-<version> into which it places the files doc/filter.ps and
  37 doc/spec.ps.
  38
  39
  40 HTML
  41 ----
  42
  43 A special conversion from the original sources via Texinfo into HTML is done to
  44 create the online documentation at http://www.exim.org. This set of files is
  45 also available for installation on other servers. Wherever you got this
  46 distribution from should also have carried another file called
  47 exim-html-<version>.tar.gz which contains the HTML documentation. When
  48 de-tarred it creates a directory called exim-html-<version> into which it
  49 places a directory called doc/html containing the set of HTML files. The kick
  50 off points are:
  51
  52    html/spec.html          - specification (framed)
  53    html/filter_toc.html    - filter docs
  54
  55
  56 PDF
  57 ---
  58
  59 The Exim specifications are available in Portable Document Format. Wherever you
  60 got this distribution from should also have carried another file called
  61 exim-pdf-<version>.tar.gz which contains the PDF documentation. When de-tarred
  62 it creates a directory called exim-pdf-<version> into which it places the files
  63 doc/filter.pdf and doc/spec.pdf.
  64
  65
  66 TeXinfo
  67 -------
  68
  69 A version of the documentation that has been converted to TeXinfo format is
  70 available in the distribution file exim-texinfo-<version>.gz. When de-tarred it
  71 creates a directory called exim-texinfo-<version> into which it places the
  72 files doc/filter.texinfo and doc/spec.texinfo.
  73
  74 The conversion process is automatic (a Perl script) so the result isn't as nice
  75 as hand-maintained TeXinfo files would be, and some information is lost;
  76 for example, TeXinfo does not support the use of change bars.
  77
  78 There is cgi-bin perl script called info2www which converts info files to
  79 html on the fly so that the same info files can be read using the "info"
  80 program, or from emacs, or from your favourite browser. This is available from
  81
  82 http://www.ericsson.nl/info2www/info2www.html
  83
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