Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:46:58 +0100 (MET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Help, I've been SCOed! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961209114405.6170A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961207195642.184D-100000@hamby1>
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > 3) Start thinking about a custom help system like scohelp, which would > combine man pages and HTML through a custom HTTP server that could be > accessed remotely. Everyone is moving to HTML (or SGML) anyway, including > our own FreeBSD Handbook. We just need to make things more approachable > for new users. > > All of these have been discussed recently in hackers, so I thought I'd > post this as a summary of how one vendor has done things. I wish I had > some more insightful comments, but I hope that repeating what they've done > wrong should show us what we can do better. > > I hope you found these comments useful and relevant. Overall, I'd say > FreeBSD has done as good (and often better) job than many commercial UNIX > vendors have done, as my experience today proved! BTW, now I know that if > I had spent $10 on "Free SCO", it would've been wasted money. Rather to > find that out with someone else paying me, than vice versa! :-) Now, when > Free UnixWare comes out, that I might think about buying. Comments? > > -- Jake > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Andrzej Bialecki <abial@warman.org.pl> _) _) _)_) _)_)_) _) _) --------------------------------------- _)_) _) _) _) _)_) _)_) Research and Academic Network in Poland _) _)_) _)_)_)_) _) _) _) Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland _) _) _) _) _)_)_) _) _) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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