     eg(1)                          Version 1.00                           eg(1)
     Expert Guide                                                   Expert Guide

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     NAME
          eg - Expert Guide. A Norton Guide Reader.

     SYNOPSIS
          eg [options] [norton-guide]

     DESCRIPTION
          eg is a text mode, full screen Norton Guide reader.

        OPTIONS
          -h   Display help text.

          -p guide-path
               Sets the search path in which eg should look for Norton Guides
               when building it's guide database. If you specify the path on the
               command line it overrides the EG_PATH environment variable.

          -s   Use a "sane" display. Expert Guide will attempt to guess if it
               can use the fullest range of IBM extended characters when
               displaying the contents of a guide entry. Somtimes it may guess
               wrong. If it does, pass -s to force it into a "sane" display
               mode.

          -v   Display version details.

     ENVIRONMENT
          EG_PATH
               Holds the path in which eg looks for Norton Guides when you ask
               for a directory listing. This should be a "normal" path with each
               directory location seperated with a ":" (or a ";" if running
               under DOS).

     NOTES
          The first time you run eg you will need to point it to a specific
          Norton Guide. After that eg will remember the guide you last read and
          the entry in that guide you were last reading.

     BUGS
          Lots of Unix environment issues to think about?

          Can't display full IBM character set when compiled for Dos (slang
          problem?).

          Screen output and refresh could possibly be improved?

          No support for SIGWINCH.

          The menu code is a little ropey, this needs to be re-done.

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     eg(1)                          Version 1.00                           eg(1)
     Expert Guide                                                   Expert Guide

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          Some non-fatal errors still drop out of eg. Error reporting needs to
          be improved.

          Filename (tab) completion doesn't work too well under Dos when drive
          letters are involved.

     TODO
          o Guide wide searching.  o Re-write based around a Norton Guide
          reading library.  o Using the library write a gnome oriented version
          of EG.

     AUTHOR
          Dave Pearson <davep@davep.org>

     HOMEPAGE
          http://www.hagbard.demon.co.uk/
          http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/

     FILES
          ~/.egrc
               User configuration file.

          ~/.eglast
               Remembers last read file and last position in that file.

          ~/.egdir
               Norton guide directory "cache".

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