<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:46 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Gaetan Nadon <<A HREF="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</A>> wrote: > This is text intended for the user to read, not the shell > interpreter. Yes, that's why there are backslashes, so the interpreter doesn't replace them when displaying the help text. For example the user is told they can set an environment variable called "LIBDIR" to specify where to install libraries. FONTPATH uses the defined LIBDIR so to specify the FONTPATH the usage is currently described as: FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: $PREFIX/$LIBDIR...) If you remove the backslashes the user will be informed that: FONTPATH: font path to use (defaults under: /...) if neither $PREFIX nor $LIBDIR are set. In this case it's not clear to the user that the FONTPATH is being built using the predefined PREFIX and LIBDIR variables. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> Thanks I should have seen this. </BODY> </HTML>