From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net>
To: Linux Glibc <glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu>
Cc: Kamil Iskra <kamil@dwd.interkom.pl>, Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages 
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:17:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809251314520.447-100000@neko.binary9.net>
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X-SW-Source: 1998-09/msg01366.html

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

 # I don't care. If the text console version of the info program didn't suck
 # so badly, I might be thinking better thoughts about info files, but I
 # don't, so RMS can go suck his left nut for dreaming up such a horrid user
 # interface. (And yes, I know there are alternatives like tkinfo but
 # they're x-based)

Now, Alex, you mustn't keep these things bottled up inside... go ahead and
speak your mind, man! Don't be afraid! 

While I agree that the current interface is lacking in many ways, I
wouldn't put it quite so harshly.

I'm currently working (and have been for a while) a perl cgi script that
does on-the-fly converstions of info files to html. It works, but needs
work :)

G'day!

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