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Date:      Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:26:24 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Cc:        mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, jfieber@indiana.edu, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updates to printing.sgml
Message-ID:  <199607040026.AAA05149@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199607031453.OAA24189@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:53:50 -0600)

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>>>>> Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
> 
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org> writes:
>     Mike> Since 90% of the users are going to look on the website, and
>     Mike> not their local hard disk for this information, ...
> 
> And that's something we could fix by including in the default X11
> desktop a window opened to the handbook---or at least an icon that
> says `Handbook.'  I haven't played with Windows, but HP/UX's and
> OS/2's default GUIs include copious hypertext by default.

This could easily be done by including lynx in the base system with
file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html as its default
home page, and putting a menu item for it in the default window
manager config.

Isn't there some way of firing up lynx from inside sysinstall?

> A special contract with Netscape?  

He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon...

> If not
> Netscape, how about tkWWW (I'm biased towards Tcl/Tk ... see you at
> the Tcl/Tk Workshop '96!) ?

This could be an opportunity for you and your fellow Tcl zealots to
confound the sceptics. :-)

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/


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