Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:48:11 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@FreeBSD.org>, 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> 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 References: <199912091313.FAA65601@freefall.freebsd.org> <199912091530.KAA54512@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thursday, 9 December 1999 at 10:30:19 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 05:13:26 -0800 (PST), Ollivier Robert <roberto@FreeBSD.org> 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
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