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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:43:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard)
Cc:        DARREND@novell.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some documentation questions.
Message-ID:  <199604110643.IAA13604@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604102307.QAA17659@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Apr 10, 96 04:07:44 pm"

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Mike Pritchard wrote:
> Darren Davis wrote:
> > Second, is there any work going on to convert the man pages into
> > hypertext linked html documents to be used with a browser.  I like
> > the way the FreeBSD handbook works far more than xman.  And since I
> > keep a browser up anyway, it would be much faster to access. 
> > Actually, I would prefer all docs to be in html (/usr/share/doc and
> > /usr/share/man).
> 
> Funny you should mention that.  I've been thinking about doing exactly that,
> and then updating the handbook to include links to the appropriate
> man page instead of just teling the user to go look at the man page.
> Is there some kind of man2html program floating around that
> does this?

There's unroff in the ports. Uses elk, so it's not the right thing for
integration into the system, though.

tg


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