Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 16:53:16 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Mail about `dir' file. Message-ID: <7441.789699196@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jan 1995 10:18:15 MST." <9501091718.AA01988@cs.weber.edu>
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> I saw it; I wasn't horribly enamored of the idea of info files at all, > having hacked help files on VMS for far too long in my miguided youth. Maybe, but we've already got a browser we can count on having with the system (unless you're prepared right here and now to try and get lynx into /usr/bin :-) that a number of people are ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH and it's called info. My personal preference would be to do the docs in sgml, sure, but the very minute texinfo output works, pop copies of the output into /usr/share/info at install time. That would give us nice online docs using a browser that may be a little crufty, but it's small and it's been around for a real long time. Don't worry, we'll produce HTML too so that folks like you can browse with netscape all you wish! :-) Jordan
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