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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:48:49 +0000
From:      davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To:        eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: new texinfo is busted!
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970112024849.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com>; from Eivind Eklund on Jan 12, 1997 14:54:50 %2B0100
References:  <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com>

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Eivind Eklund writes:
> I'm in favour.  I haven't yet seen a good browser for info, and it is pain
> to get the ones that exist to even open the files.  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.

FWIW, rman (Rossetta man) can do this pretty well (convert man
pages to html amongst other things). A simple cgi front-end can
do it all for you on the X desktop, although I've come to
appreciate tkman+glipse for some time.


> With a small lookup-program and automatic conversion, it might
> even be a usable alternative - I might try to create a CGI to
> do automatic conversion as an experiment.

Fortunately, the work is already done. :-)


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
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