Hi everyone

After trying for some weeks to learn to use lpdoc, I'm forced to throw myself on the mercy of the group again!

1. On openSUSE 12.1

a. I tried to use the 1.14.2 version with lpdoc 3 The warnings that the lpdoc documentation is out of date seem only too true! In particular, I could not find a way to persuade it that lpSETTINGS.pl existed.

So I abandoned 1.14 and downloaded the 1.15 RPM and installed it on a fresh Linux system using the command: rpm -Uvh The installation worked fine! Opening a .pl file with emacs showed the full Ciao menus (including lpdoc menu items). But I am mystified why? I did nothing to /etc/profile or ~/.profile to call the DOT files or to ~/.emacs to load the ciao .el files but they work. Why do they work?

What does not work is attempts to call lpdoc. info. I checked the main info/dir (/usr/share/info/dir) and there was an entry for Ciao but not for lpdoc. This may be because lpdoc has been folded into the ciao info file. From the command line, the command: info lpdoc produces a man file! Is this expected behaviour?

2. Apple Mac OSX 10.6.8

The development package works OK here except that Aquamacs program displays only 2 Ciao menu items but has a >> icon which leads to the CiaoPP and Lpdoc menu items which do seem to work OK too. Is this expected behaviour. (I tried ordinary emacs but it didn't seem to pick up Ciao mode at all).

Playing with the OSX Ciao, I found that setting environment vars in a terminal window did not seem to work system-wide. I realise that this question is beyond the scope of this group, but does anyone know the "correct" way to set env vars globally on the Mac?

3. CiaoPP Is this application available to play with?

Regards John O'Gorman