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 ...