On 19 Oct 2000, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

# Date: 19 Oct 2000 10:08:36 -0700
# From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
# To: Al B. Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
# Cc: tech-misc@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: airport codes.
# 
# alaric@alaric-snell.com ("Al B. Snell") writes:
# > A
# > web browser in the base system would be... pointless! Who would it help?
# 
# err, uh...
# 
# "people wanting to view documentation that we ship only in HTML form
# (and can't without painful maintenance issues)?"

And we are shipping doco in HTML form precisely why?

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I notice that there's a lot of stuff missing from the usd section,
notably the nroff/troff tutorials; 13.amd is blank (I'm relegated
to using "info" to view the contents!), et al.
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Frankly, I miss being able to roff the stuff into postscript and
print it, or roff it into text and view it.
.sp
An html browser is, to me, a waste of time when it comes to
documentation.  I'll take $TXTFORMAT $TFARGS | $PAGER $PGARGS any
day of the week.  One of the disappointing things to me is the GNU
migration away from man to info.  Granted, info can be useful,
but I want my man pages as well.
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# cgd



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