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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 1996 05:30:20 -0600
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...)
Message-ID:  <199603141130.FAA07089@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960227093712.19218A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227100616.2001D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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Jake Hamby  <jehamby@lightside.com> wrote:
>I said A standard, not many competing standards, but maybe I should
>qualify myself a little.  Sure, Unix has man pages and Texinfo, but can
>you call them up from within a GUI application (and not in an xterm :-)? 

Sure. There's the old standard xman, tkman, and I read the FreeBSD
man pages under Netscape using rosettaman. tkman and rosettaman give
me hypertext links from anything that looks like a man(1) reference.

Way more useful than Windows help, which usually has me playing Juggling
Windows trying to see both the information I'm trying to reference and
the application I'm trying to use. Especially with those stupid little
one-sentence popups they like.



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