DESL Documentation

Please take a look at the collection of frequently asked questions. Hopefully most of your questions regarding how to obtain, configure, and use DESL are addressed.

( Doc) The DESL Documentation

If the DESL documentation is desired to reside locally then the makesys.exe utility should be run in the doc subdirectory to expand the shddoc file into numerous other HTML and graphics files.

There are numerous reasons for desiring to have the DESL documentation at the local level. The speed of the web page loading is increased if the DESL web pages exist on a local machine. Security may be the reason for needing to have the documentation locally. Perhaps the DESL host is isolated from the outside world.

The disadvantage of having the web pages on the local machine is that it will not reflect the latest changes which may be present in the ViGYAN-maintained web pages. The local web pages can, however, be downloaded as often as necessary, if the unrestricted version of DESL was downloaded - i.e., you have a subscription to DESL.

There are features of the DESL documentation and its production which inform the user of dated section changes which have occurred after the documentation base date release as well as features allowing notes from up to 10 user notebooks to be inserted into the DESL web pages as they are produced. The latter capability only exists when the unrestricted version of DESL has been downloaded and used. Please review the pertinent section of the DESL documentation for a complete discussion of user notes.

All of the DESL documentation is contained in HTML web pages. These web pages are maintained remotely on the ViGYAN web server and are continuously updated in a downloadable amalgamation of packed web pages and the accompanying makesys utility to unpack this file into a set of web pages on the local machine.

As the DESL documentation is updated dates will be entered in the pertinent web pages in red (more words needed here) to reflect the changes which have occurred since the last documentation base date.

Occasionally the documentation will be completely refreshed wherein the dates will disappear - i.e., a new base documentation date will be established and any incremental changes from that point on will reference the new base date.

Throughout all of the DESL documentation web pages there are many locations where user notes reference points exist. At any or all of these locations, when the DESL documentation has been downloaded to the local computer, the user need only download a late edition of the documentation then rerun the makesys utility pointing it to up to notes files to tie the existing set of user notes to the new set of documentation. This capability provides the DESL user with a way of maintaining a set of notes which is meaningful to their situation in the context of the current DESL documentation.