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Creating Effective JavaHelp
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Creating Effective JavaHelp

by Kevin Lewis
June 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Installing JavaHelp on Your Computer

To work with JavaHelp while you read this book, you must set up your computer to run JavaHelp as well as the sample files in this book. You can obtain the JavaHelp distribution from Sun Microsystems’ JavaHelp web page at http://www.java.sun.com/products/javahelp. Also, I provide a link to Sun’s download page under “Examples” on the book’s web page, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/creatingjavahelp.

Once you connect to the download site, Sun provides instructions on how to download and run the JavaHelp installation file. Although Sun provides a default installation location, I installed JavaHelp to the root level of my computer. Under Windows, you can install JavaHelp in C:\jh1.1; under Unix or Linux, you could install it in subdirectory jh1.1 of your home directory (or, if you have permission, in /usr/local/jh1.1). Also, take a peek ahead to Chapter 8. In Section 8.3, I discuss matching JavaHelp to a computer’s Java processing environment.

When you install the JavaHelp distribution, pay close attention to any README file that Sun includes. As JavaHelp is developed further, its requirements may change. For example, the version I used for writing this book required shell commands ...

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