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Article #73372Re: man to texinfo
From: Rich Braun
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1991 21:41
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1991 21:41
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maneesh@bullyrag.ugcs.caltech.edu (Maneesh Sahani) writes: >The program I envision would take a man tree (say /usr/man) and make a >top [info] node with a menu that looked like: Sounds like a positively useful thing. Indeed, it would be positively useful if someone would contribute a usable "man page" reader program to the net.community: my network of SCO and AIX systems contains no "nroff", "troff", or "groff". Yet people persist in using "nroff" as the de facto standard for Unix documentation in Internet source code distributions. Building "groff" is a task for wizards only, and it can't be done on the IBM RS/6000. (Or can it?) -rich
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9c35cfc8b94efa28 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-28 05:07:27 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!news.bbn.com!noc.near.net!eclectic.com!kronos!richb From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: man to texinfo Message-ID: <1991Sep27.214111.16169@kronos.com> Date: 27 Sep 91 21:41:11 GMT References: <gnulists-MANEESH.91Sep23111227@bullyrag.ugcs.caltech.edu> Distribution: gnu Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA Lines: 15