Re: exim mail routing...
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:31:06PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >nobody said, it that there must be so many places for
> >documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation.
> >and even that is not that bad. man, info and /usr/doc are the main sources
> >- it could be *much* worse. possibly the initial /etc/motd should
> >say (well, not literally ;-):
> >"have a look at /usr/man, /usr/info and /usr/doc to get started. [...]"
>
> -- Yes. But if/as we try to make linux more useable, such anachronisms
> should be smoothed out. E.g. it would be nice to have dynamic www pages,
> which give access to conversions of all available documentation on a
> system, looking in all the relevant places to index it.
>
> This would merge the various sources, and provide a single consistent
> browsing /access tool, instead on (info, man, zcat).
dhelp and dwww both try to accomplish this. Word is, Wichert is working
on a new solution since both of those don't work as well as they could.
The reader is the web browser, unfortunately to take full advantage you
need a web server. Perhaps a light weight server run from init could be
used for work stations that normally have no use for a web server. I
agree we need a grand unified documentation system for unix in general.
Info does a pretty good job, but there's no option for images which is
sometimes absolutely necessary. Think the GNOME folks are working on an
XML based system, but then it becomes dependent on GNOME (not ideal). I
don't know what the perfect solution is, considering the variability of
systems.
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