From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 4 03:54:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA19515 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 03:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA19509 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 03:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aj03245; 4 Jul 96 11:53 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa04345; 4 Jul 96 11:51 +0100 Received: (from fdocs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA05149; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:26:24 GMT Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:26:24 GMT Message-Id: <199607040026.AAA05149@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov CC: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, jfieber@indiana.edu, doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607031453.OAA24189@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Wed, 3 Jul 1996 08:53:50 -0600) Subject: Re: Updates to printing.sgml Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Sean Kelly writes: > > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Pritchard 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/