Re: indexing the docuentation? hmm...
will trillich <will@serensoft.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I think the existing man page framework is fine for
>> this (but then I would say that). Sure, some man pages are useless, and
>> a lot of them are specific to individual programs. A lot of them are
>> general introductions to things as well. There's also info and the
>> HOWTOs. If you want to put some effort into improving Linux's help
>> system, your time would be a lot better spent working on writing code
>> thet indexes all of these in a friendly way (there are already GUI
>
>hmm. indexing the existing documentation ...
>
> manpages
> info
> /usr/share/doc/*...*/*.html
> howto's
>
>is anybody pursuing something like this?
Not that I know of. /usr/sbin/accessdb dumps the full man database in a
reasonably machine-readable form, if that would help (although details
of the format may change slightly).
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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