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Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:29:02 -0500
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Michael(tm) Smith <address@hidden>:
> I think we could have a system in which man pages were stored on
> local systems simply as HTML (which could be HTML originally
> generated from DocBook or generated by some other means or even
> just authored directly in HTML), and "man <whatever>" would just
> cause a browser (be it a curses-based browser or a GUI one) to be
> envoked and the page displayed in that.

I got the right hooks into man(1) to do this last year.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>




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