[plug] The death of Man Pages. was: Trouble with LILO

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David Campbell wrote:

> Yes, make sure that in the /etc/lilo.conf you specify the geometry 

Thanks David.
 I had looked in the man pages, but the info needed is only in the
TeX documentation. Anyway, now i have tex & xdvi installed, and its all
there.

  Why do so many Linux/Unix authors these days refuse to write even a
decent summary in a man page? OK, i dont like nroff either, but at least
it is (was?) a standard.
   It seems HTML is the future and TeX, gnu-info, et al will die out.
(just dont tell rms)

Would it solve the problem if the Linux community decided to convert
all the man pages to HTML?  'man' could use lynx for formatting.

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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