Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:35:46 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA Message-ID: <9503301735.AA12786@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199503300316.WAA14726@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Mar 29, 95 10:16:30 pm
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> > > Why cant we make that an optional PORT directory item? I'd hate > > to end up in a position where one has no choice but to use > > pointy-clicky (arrowkeys in lynx ;) over man because at somepoint > > it was decided to stop supporting primarily the man style manual > > pages. > > And who proposed that we ditch the existing man system? It sure > wasn't me. I think you missed the main point. The point is to > provide an interface to our own hypertext document (faq's, > tutorials, GNU info pages and such) and possibly provide an > *alternate* interface to the manual pages. Yeah, even AIX still has real man pages. > > I might suggest that this whole bag of things (man pages, > tutorials, FAQ, GNU info pages and man(1), lynx and httpd) be > wrapped up as a optional "documentation" package. > > -john > Hear, hear! Boyd > === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ > =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush === > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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