From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 14:50:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA16514 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:50:05 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA16508 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:50:03 -0800 Message-Id: <199503252250.OAA16508@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA03599; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:49:24 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA To: jeffh@Cybernetics.NET (Jeff) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:49:24 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeff" at Mar 25, 95 05:46:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 924 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If this is the reasoning behind including an http daemon with FreeBSD, > I would suggest using the WN http daemon. My reasoning behind this is > that it is fast, fairly easy to configure, and has some wicked-cool > features built in such as context sensitive searches, title searches, > etc, that would be _perfect_ for on-line documentation; it's a match made > in heaven. > > Any comments? 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. I've just been burned so much by AIX's info system so much that I'd hate to be forced to use the same type thing under FreeBSD. -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/