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Re: How will man pages be stored under GNU?

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 15:58
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In article <1992Apr16.192321.834@news.Hawaii.Edu> julian@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Julian Cowley) writes:

   In article <MIB.92Apr16093720@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
   >In article <1992Apr15.182147.14146@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel T. Poirot) writes:
   >
   >   How about people who want access to the GNU texinfo-style manuals, but
   >   don't want to have to learn how to use EMACS or TeX to get a printout.
   >
   >Once again, the choice of storage medium is orthogonal to the choice
   >of access program.  The Info system is improving, and will eventually
   >include a standalone info reader and a simple `man' style shell
   >command. 

   That sounds great.  Will each of the separate programs use the
   same master file or will a manual writer have to write N
   different synopses, references, and tutorials?

They will all use the same info file(s), created from the master
texinfo file by makeinfo.

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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: How will man pages be stored under GNU?
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