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Mike Matthews writes
> I wish they'd make it more stable.

That's odd.  Perhaps I'm not doing as much with it as you are, but it hasn't  
crashed on me once.  Librarian, in contrast, crashes quite frequently.  Don't  
index more than one thing simultaneously.  This causes a DL crash or DL to just  
sit there and not actually index anything.  Also, for some reason I can't get  
my local man pages to index like the NeXT-supplied ones do; with the  
descriptions and coming up as "blah" or "blah(1)" instead of "man1/blah.1".  I  
can see that the nice descriptions come from the 'whatis' file, but is there a  
relatively painless way to make that 'whatis' file?  I'm not in any mood to  
summarize each man page I've got manually.

Back to the thread of 3.0's DL; in an attempt to duplicate NeXT's method for  
output display of manpages in DL, I simply linked the additional files for  
formatting the manpage output and the directory icon (.roffArgs,  
displayCommand and .dir.tiff respectively).  I linked from  
/NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages to /usr/local/man.

> Terminal Services is a nice workaround for that.

I'll try that Terminal Service line that you recommended.  Thanks for the tip!

> How about modules?

I think that's an excellent idea.  Upgrade the module, and both NG and Mail are  
upgraded (plus whatever else uses that module).  Sounds like a great way to do  
it!
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-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail ok