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To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Mail about `dir' file. 
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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 16:53:16 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I saw it; I wasn't horribly enamored of the idea of info files at all,
> having hacked help files on VMS for far too long in my miguided youth.

Maybe, but we've already got a browser we can count on having with the
system (unless you're prepared right here and now to try and get lynx
into /usr/bin :-) that a number of people are ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH
and it's called info.

My personal preference would be to do the docs in sgml, sure, but the
very minute texinfo output works, pop copies of the output into
/usr/share/info at install time.  That would give us nice online docs
using a browser that may be a little crufty, but it's small and it's
been around for a real long time.  Don't worry, we'll produce HTML too
so that folks like you can browse with netscape all you wish! :-)

					Jordan