[openbeos] Re: Checkins
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:49:51 -0500
Yeah, now that you mention it, it did exist. I do vaguely remember that. I
guess, then, the right thing to do is for us to code our own documentation in
html and check it in, along with the new documentation for the GNU utils.
Then I think that we need to include lynx or something so that we have
"man"-like capability from the commandline. :-D
On 2004-03-03 at 04:40:13 [-0500], Andrew Bachmann wrote:
> "Matthijs Hollemans" <matthijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If I may be so humble as to suggest using XML . . .
> >
> > What are we talking about here? Just the man pages, or other
documentation?
> >
> > As far as the man pages are concerned, they are traditionally written in
> > troff (or nroff or whatever it is called). There are plenty tools to
convert
> > that format to HTML and probably also other formats. Why change that?
> >
> > -Matthijs
> >
>
> This is true, and if anyone hadn't noticed:
>
> /boot/beos/documentation/Shell Tools
>
> Documentation for over 150 shell commands is below this subdirectory, all
in
> html from the troff/
> nroff format. (including a 223 KB file on bash!) In the html comments it
even
> documents the
> program that did the conversion.
>
> Andrew
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