Re: How to handle the jargon file?
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> ESR's perfered format is html. The jargon file is now avaliable as a single
> 2Mb html file jargon.html, which works quite well, if it does take a little
> while to load into lynx. The other option is a .tar.gz file containing all the
> html but each entry is a seperate file. I have done some work to see if I can
> package it, included is a perl script jargon-search for /usr/lib/cgi-bin to run
> searchs which I have yet to get working.
>
> What I want to know is does every else argee that this is the right way of
> doing it?
Maybe you should take advantage of the dhelp and doc-base packages. These
already provide searching via glimpse, iirc. It would also keep all the
documentation central.
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