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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: lynx in /usr/src/usr.bin/lynx; any objections? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 1995 14:31:03 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 12:35:45 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Any strong objections?  Any strong agreement?
> 
> Hmmm.  I feel somewhat uncomfortable with this idea, but I don't know
> if I can explain it to someone else.

Well, I can actually sort of understand this so let me perhaps phrase
it differently:

Given that:
	A) HTML is very likely to become the documentation format of
	   choice in the next 3 years.

	B) One should always be able to read the system's documentation
	   using the base tools provided with that system.

What would you recommend?  I don't think that (B) is that contraversal
a point - what would Windows be without WinHelp, or OS/2 without the
IBM help facility?  We should likewise be able to read our own
documentation in some format that provides for the reasonable
following of links, making bookmarks, etc.  I would also say that our
inclusion of GNU info establishes some precedent for this.

If not lynx, then...?

					Jordan