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Attached is "The advanced bash scripting guide", v5.2, as self-extracting archive. i just like it in this format because it is half the size of the .pdf version & half to one-quarter the size of extracted html. Just extract the attached abs.tar.gz to /, then the guide can be opened, (provided you've got dillo installed), by entering abs in a console, or via clicking on /usr/bin/abs.

also attached is a vtcl, (visual tcl), tut i saw on the net.

just use Pupzip to extract the self-extracting archives......sounds funny. Put the executables wherever you keep docs & click to view.

They extract to a temp directory in /tmp, then use dillo as a viewer. So you need dillo to view, otherwise modify to suit.

To copy script press left mouse key & drag to highlight, then to paste to text editor, press middle mouse key. I've reposted these as the idea was minimal size but most dloads were for larger versions!

i also added the bash-reference.

actually they were self-extracting but seemed to have stopped working here! do they load for anyone else?

just tried the bash-tutorial, it works fine.
In opens in Dillo (I use the patched one).

Do they report errors in a shell for you?

Mark

mark,

both files contain dillo-patched as the viewer. i upx'ed it & got it down to 181kbytes, but it seems to sometimes be missing the dpi config files etc.

i like the idea of having the file browser internal to the file & am just experimenting on what configuration gives smallest size, reasonable display & minimum probs. i like using dillo as it's quite fast, and i didn't want to assume what the user's default html viewer was.

i tried a tcl based file viewer instead of dillo, which was very small, but it didn't display as well, and appeared to "lock up" memory upon closing.

i'll keep plodding on.

silly me! of course i could just use defaultbrowser! then the files are a lot smaller. however i still prefer dillo as my default as much zippier.

this post redundant. see first post.

This is the latest Advanced Bash Guide, version 5.1, as a self-extracting archive using defaultbrowser as the viewer. Extract to wherever you wish & run via ./abg, or clicking.

Edit: I've removed the version that was here, and posted an updated version in first post.

thanks muggins I hadn't seen this before might (99% sure ) this will come in handy...

I've updated the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide to v5.2. For some reason the previous version, where I was using defaultbrowser as the viewer wasn't working when I just checked. Surprisingly it was downloaded 95 times without any complaint? Anyway, I've reverted to using Dillo as the default viewer.

If you want to grab the docs & copy them somewhere whilst the DIllo browser is open, they're located in a temporary directory in /tmp, with a name like /tmp/selfxyz22, or some such.