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Article #72040Re: How will man pages be stored under GNU?
From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 15:58
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. -mib -- Michael I. Bushnell +--+ +1 617 625 4518 (H) +--+ +1 617 253 8568 (W) Mary Magdalene turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ``Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?'' Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ``Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.'' Jesus said to her, ``Mary!'' She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ``Rabbouni!'' (which means Teacher).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5ecdebf098e029e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-04-21 08:58:18 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!yale!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!mib From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Subject: Re: How will man pages be stored under GNU? In-Reply-To: julian@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu's message of 16 Apr 92 19:23:21 GMT Message-ID: <MIB.92Apr21105818@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA References: <MIB.92Apr15092642@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <199204151459.AA26338@trantor.uvm.edu> <1992Apr15.182147.14146@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <MIB.92Apr16093720@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Apr16.192321.834@news.Hawaii.Edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 15:58:18 GMT Lines: 31