From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 10 7:28:13 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8981579B; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:48:11 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Ollivier Robert , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: HTML or man pages? (was: cvs commit: src/contrib/ntp FREEBSD-upgrade) Message-ID: <19991209214811.K439@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <199912091313.FAA65601@freefall.freebsd.org> <199912091530.KAA54512@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199912091530.KAA54512@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:30:19AM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thursday, 9 December 1999 at 10:30:19 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > >> The bad news is that manpages no longer exist, everything is in HTML. I'll >> commit the text version of each HTML file in /usr/share/doc/ntp soon to have >> at least the help files w/o needing to get the entire contrib/ntp tree. > > It would be very good if one of our doco crew could resurrect the old > man pages and update them to reflect the current state of affairs. We > really don't want to be increasing the number of programs without > useful man pages. Wouldn't a tool to convert html to catman be a better expenditure of effort? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message