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Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- To: oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br (Alexandre Oliva)
- Subject: Re: (Getting rid of) man pages
- From: CaT <cat at zip dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:22:20 +1000 (EST)
- Cc: cat at zip dot com dot au, pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
Alexandre Oliva wrote the following:
>
> On Apr 22, 1999, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Gerald Pfeifer wrote the following:
>
> >> I therefore propose to remove those man pages, at least those that are
> >> obsolete and virtually unmaintained, from the distribution, and solely
> >> refer to the info and HTML docs.
>
> > html would be just as bad. :/
>
> What's wrong with lynx? :-)
Absolutely nothing. Lynx quite frankly rocks my world. I've even adapted
an SSL patch to work witht he development releases.
I just have a problem with such a layout for manpages. it annoys me.
> > What IS ionvolved in maintaining the man pages btw?
>
> Your sending legal papers to the FSF to become their official
> maintainer? :-D
That sounds, well, rather ominous. :)
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