Re: alternative "info" reader (was: kernel makeoptions)

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> 2) All GNU software uses info as the primary means of documentation.
> 
> ncurses is one exception.


You'd certainly know better than I, but ncurses seems to be a hybrid like zlib, 
rather than something which originated as a GNU project.  While the GNU project 
hosts distfiles and probably provides mailing lists and the like, ncurses and 
zlib are MIT-licensed (or MIT variants if you prefer).

  http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#is_it_gpl

And, of course, you're non-compliant with the info/texinfo decree.  :-)

> It's odd, but there appears to be no good conversion program between info and 
> manpages (nor the reverse ;-), while there are conversions for both to html...

HTML is a decent output format, but it would be no fun to try and process it 
back to a source format.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck