Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:39 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 development.7 Message-ID: <20021222160039.18fcf550.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021222.135346.13282178.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20021222195143.P65737@woozle.rinet.ru> <20021222.133502.97851012.imp@bsdimp.com> <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> <20021222.135346.13282178.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:53:46 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> > Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes: > : I've got a whole bunch of patch submissions building up for > this. : I've already incorporated this correction in but thanks! > : > : Two people asked me why a man page verses a doc. The answer is > simply: that an order of magnitude more people will read and use > it as a manual: page verses as a doc. In fact, now that I think > about it, something: we really ought to do is incorporate document > access into the: 'man' system. > > On a similar note, I've wondered why we don't have the man pages in > html form with appropriately generated indecies in > /usr/share/man/html*. Lots of folks have moved beyond 'man' in the > environment I have at work and like to do more web based things (they > have bookmarks to people that have done these conversions even though > they have man pages locally). This is different than what you are > saying, but in a similar vein. > > I'm not sure how we'd incorporate access to handbook things into man, > but don't let my poverty of imagination stop people from being > innovative. > > Warner > Blaspheme! -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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