From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 15 16:00:05 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA06121 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:00:05 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu (grendel.csc.smith.edu [131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06115 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:00:04 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA06114; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:01:00 -0400 From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199504152301.TAA06114@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: any news as to html server? To: pvinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:00:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199504152122.OAA04680@ix3.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Apr 15, 95 02:22:51 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1070 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Paul Vinciguerra writes: > Has there been a decision as to whether or not 2.1 will include a html > server? More importantly, is there going to some type of CGI support? I think the jury is still out on this one. A working demo of what the help system could be with an http server might be a good thing to throw together. Personally I don't have time but I would certainly encourage anyone who wants to make a go at it. A good demo should be able to do on-the-fly html generation from man pages with live links to other man pages. It should also support an interface to "man -k", again with live links to the resulting man pages. It should be no more difficult to use than the man command and automagically incorporate anything the user adds in /usr/local/man, or rather it should find anything that the regular man command would find. Ideally it would be just as fast at on-the-fly generation as man is. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===