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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 13:09:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
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Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted!
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> At 11:59 AM 1/12/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote:
> >Get me right, my emacs runs all day and night, its uptime is usually
> >identical to the system uptime.  Nevertheless, there are people who
> >don't prefer it as their editor of choice, and the attitude ``use it
> >to read the info files or die'' would just cause me to say: to the
> >hell with all the info files.  Make them HTML or man pages.  (We
> >already sorta rely on HTML, see the FAQ and the handbook.)
> 
> I'm in favour.  I haven't yet seen a good browser for info, and it is pain
> to get the ones that exist to even open the files.  While we're at it, it
> would even be nice to have the man-pages as HTML - not as a replacement
> format, but as an alternative.
> 
> With a small lookup-program and automatic conversion, it might even be a
> usable alternative - I might try to create a CGI to do automatic conversion
> as an experiment.
> 
> 
> Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
> 
Hello
	
I always view the info files as html.  Check out 
http://www.bazzle.com/cgi/info2html.cgi this is a slow link so be nice.
There is a pointer at the bottom of the page for info2html.

Peace, 

                                              Eric J. Chet
					       - ejc@naserver1.cb.lucent.com
                                               - ejc@bazzle.com