Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4

Frank Sweetser (rasmusin@WPI.EDU)
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:16:39 -0400 (EDT)


==> Regarding Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4 ; Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> adds:

torvalds> The "info" interface makes sense only to people who grok GNU
torvalds> emacs, and if you actually want to be user-friendly you either
torvalds> use "man" (because that's how everything else is documented and
torvalds> then you could actually just tell people to use man everywhere)
torvalds> or you use HTML (because that's a _useful_ format that even
torvalds> non-emacsheads can understand).

the info2www program works pretty nice - it's a cgi bin that converts and
displays info->html on the fly. i've got src/i386 5.2 rpms floating around
if anyone's interested...

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