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From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 22:16:30 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199503252250.OAA16508@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Mar 25, 95 05:49:24 pm
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> Why cant we make that an optional PORT directory item?  I'd hate
> to end up in a position where one has no choice but to use
> pointy-clicky (arrowkeys in lynx ;) over man because at somepoint
> it was decided to stop supporting primarily the man style manual
> pages.

And who proposed that we ditch the existing man system?  It sure
wasn't me.  I think you missed the main point.  The point is to
provide an interface to our own hypertext document (faq's,
tutorials, GNU info pages and such) and possibly provide an
*alternate* interface to the manual pages.  

I might suggest that this whole bag of things (man pages,
tutorials, FAQ, GNU info pages and man(1), lynx and httpd) be
wrapped up as a optional "documentation" package.

-john

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