Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:50:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How would you like the FreeBSD DOC CD presented/indexed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960705184234.26702A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199607052010.NAA15385@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Those of you who got the previous DOC CD (or heard me talk about it) > > know that: > > > > 1. I had nothing to do with it. > > > > 2. I was not particularly pleased at how it was put together. > > To be specific, it wasn't very easy to use and the data was not > > provided in a format that lent itself to searching or re-use. > > > > they'd like the news/mail indexed? Please speak up now! :-) > > > I would like to see included binaries for some type of HTML reader. I second this. Having the docs in html format is a great idea. As a bare minimum, include lynx, and maybe Mosaic (netscape would be super, but I'm sure it's impossible to license for free..) Personally, I like having the doc CD available on my machine (remote) so I can point an httpd document root to it. Then I can get to the stuff easily from at home, at work, etc.. > > I would like to see a file in the top level called "autorun.sh" > that invokes the binary for the reader on the start of the index > page. Wiring for "autorunning" will eventually go into BSD at > some point in time for insertion-based activation. > Neat idea. I like this one too, and the relative paths are of course mandatory so people can move the collection around :-) Autorun (although it smells like win95) is a great feature, especially for novice FreeBSD'ers. > I'd like to see everything use relative paths, or an implicit relative > root. You can assume that the autorun.sh will be started with the > directory containing it as the current directory. > > > -Mark :%t$sig -- Oops, thought I was in vi.. ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | -------------------------------------------
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