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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:20:16 -0700
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Scripts for rendering man pages in HTML?
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 08:08:09PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
> At EuroBSDCon i was talking to the creators of man.cgi (Ingo and
> Kristaps)

Wait, did you mean to refer to mandoc ( http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ )?
That is what Ingo created. 
It is not the same as man.cgi, which was created by Wolfram Schneider (wosch@).

> and we were talking about moving FreeBSD over to that, because
> the script used now, did not look very easy to work with.
>
> But it is in the docs tree:
> doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/cgi/man.cgi

What are the problems with that script?
It is about 15 years old, but it is quite understandable Perl.

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Craig Rodrigues
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