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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:15:16 +1100
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new texinfo is busted! 
Message-ID:  <199701122115.IAA29419@nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com> 

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[Moved to freebsd-doc from freebsd-hackers.]

On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:54:50 +0100  Eivind Eklund wrote:

> While we're at it, it
> would even be nice to have the man-pages as HTML - not as a replacement
> format, but as an alternative.

Look at:

http://er4www.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jschrock/

This "man2html" is a /bin/sh script (yikes!) but does a really good
job of on the fly man page to HTML.  (It parses the nroff *output*,
which is an interesting approach.)

For speed and/or safety on public web servers some putting the output
up rather than running the CGI might be advised. :-)

There are half a squillion other converters, too, but this one I know
to work well.

Giles




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