Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
> # 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?

"because converting it to other than HTML form causes painful
maintenance issues."


> 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.
> .Rf

TXTFORMAT=lynx
TFARGS=dump

8-P


chris