From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 10 16:07:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17665 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17659 Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:07:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199604102307.QAA17659@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Some documentation questions. To: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 16:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Darren Davis" at Apr 10, 96 03:47:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darren Davis wrote: > > First, is there a package of the current FreeBSD handbook and FAQ > that I can download as one file and pkg_add on my system to bring my > local documentation up to date? It is allways too slow to access the > current copy on your web site. If you have -current sources online, you can build & install them yourself (cd /usr/src/share/doc/{FAQ,handbook}, make...) > Second, is there any work going on to convert the man pages into > hypertext linked html documents to be used with a browser. I like > the way the FreeBSD handbook works far more than xman. And since I > keep a browser up anyway, it would be much faster to access. > Actually, I would prefer all docs to be in html (/usr/share/doc and > /usr/share/man). Funny you should mention that. I've been thinking about doing exactly that, and then updating the handbook to include links to the appropriate man page instead of just teling the user to go look at the man page. Is there some kind of man2html program floating around that does this? -- Mike Pritchard mpp@freebsd.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"