From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 30 09:37:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA04028 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 09:37:58 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA04021 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 09:37:53 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA27755; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:37:21 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA12786; Thu, 30 Mar 95 11:35:47 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503301735.AA12786@olympus> Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:35:46 -0600 (CST) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503300316.WAA14726@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Mar 29, 95 10:16:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1227 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. Yeah, even AIX still has real man 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 > Hear, hear! Boyd > === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ > =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________