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

[Rob Hall]

A bloody good idea I recon!

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Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Mike Holland
> Sent: 12 February 1999 14:50
> To: David Campbell
> Cc: Perth Linux User Group
> Subject: [plug] The death of Man Pages. was: Trouble with LILO
> 
> 
> 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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> fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
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