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Re: HTML instead of GNU Info?



Hello

>  With HTML you've got to start a browser and to search HTML, you need
>  a web server with CGI and glimpse or suchlike.  And there's no cursor
>  to put on it for dictionary/man lookups or paste-ins.  Thus, HTML is
>  much less conveinient, and inferior, IMO.  Yes, `info' could be made
>  to look nicer on the screen... on a GUI.  Many of us need both X11
>  and terminal access to manuals.

Thats not true. You just have to type "lynx <filename>" and then you
can read the html without mouse/cgi/glimpse etc.

read you,

 -christian-


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