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Re: GNU man(ual)

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From: Rich Braun
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1991 01:39
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jwe@andy.che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton) writes:
>... it seems that the goal is to have all GNU
>documentation written in TeXInfo.

I like this idea, myself.  And given that I'm doing the initial setup of
Unix systems at my company (i.e. there's not a base of users who depend
on a [crufty] existing way of doing things), I'd like to shift the entire
system into an Info system.

Is there any reasonable way to take a pile (mountain?) of man pages and
create an Info tree out of them?  And then do away with 'man' entirely?

-rich
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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
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Subject: Re: GNU man(ual)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 01:39:07 GMT
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