Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:16:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Frank Sweetser <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4 |
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==> Regarding Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4 ; Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> adds:
torvalds> The "info" interface makes sense only to people who grok GNU torvalds> emacs, and if you actually want to be user-friendly you either torvalds> use "man" (because that's how everything else is documented and torvalds> then you could actually just tell people to use man everywhere) torvalds> or you use HTML (because that's a _useful_ format that even torvalds> non-emacsheads can understand).
the info2www program works pretty nice - it's a cgi bin that converts and displays info->html on the fly. i've got src/i386 5.2 rpms floating around if anyone's interested...
-- Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers Remember though that THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR. -- Larry Wall in the perl man page
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