From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 07:48:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA02597 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 07:48:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA02592 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 07:48:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA03048; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:48:50 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: 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! References: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com>; from Eivind Eklund on Jan 12, 1997 14:54:50 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/