Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 11:35:17 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Message-ID: <199503271035.LAA06312@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503261245.GAA17069@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Mar 26, 95 06:45:48 am
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In reply to Peter da Silva who said > > Nobody has suggested either of those things. I have suggested that they should > be able to contain hotlinks to the man pages. If the server isn't there, you > can't follow those links, but you can still run "man". It'd be nice to have > a form-fill-out interface to send-pr as well, but you can still run "send-pr". You should not have to run a httpd server in order to read the online docs. Setting up httpd, while not that difficult, is above the abilites of a total newbie. Running 'help' is not. If help happens to be a link to a http viewer then a really nice online help system is possible, hotlinks to man-pages are fine but they don't have to be network URL's they can be links to local files. You don't need a server to do this. Forms is way out of context. We're talking about the documenation project here and not other services. A forms interface to send-pr is in the works. Not any time soon since I'm going to be busy on 2.1 insstallation for the foreseeable future but it is planned. That work will be incorporated into www.freebsd.org though and not on the local site. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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