Name: vi73552 Date: 05/25/99


Hi,

You probably already know about this but I thought I'd mention
it anyway.

As you know, the standard "javadoc" doclet accepts these command
line options:
  -header
  -footer
  -bottom

Unfortunately, Windows 95/98 seems to allow only 127 characters
on the command line (thank you, Microsoft). Of course, this
leaves very little room for specifying header and footer HTML
codes.

What's that you say? Why not just use environment variables to
store my HTML codes and then use the environment variables as
command line parameters, like this?

SET LINE1=<CENTER>CONFIDENTIAL</CENTER>

and then use %LINE1% in the javadoc command line like this:
  .... -header %LINE1% ....

Yes, that would be fine except Windows 98 does not allow
the '<' or '>' characters to be in an environment variable
(thank you again, Microsoft) so the SET statement above
generates a syntax error.

May I make a suggestion?

Instead of having the "-header", "-footer", and "-bottom"
command line options take actual HTML text as a parameter,
have them take a filename containing HTML text!

For example: .... -header headerFile.html ....


Thanks.
(Review ID: 83468)
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