Re: tech proposal to make manoj somewhat happy.

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:

> Raul Miller:
> > But this "single program" concept is almost antithetical to the unix
> > system design.  Unless you mean a single top-level program which 
> > calls other programs as needed.

> If all documentation is available as HTML, only one program is needed,
> the HTML browser.  However, we don't want to ship manual pages as
> anything but troff source code (and we have good reasons for that),
> we provide another program (or several) to convert manual pages to HTML
> as they are accessed. Similarly for Info files. All the `old' ways of
> accessing the documentation will work indefinitely.

Unfortunately, info files look very bad when converted to HTML.
(texinfo files can be converted to decent looking HTML, info files
cannot.)


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu