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Subject: Re: Info vs. Man (Was Re: basename()?) From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@meteng.on.ca> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:16:27 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote: >> Amen; the cumulative user interface annoyances with info are awful >> (and I'm and emacs fan!); but the idea that extensive and in-depth >> documentation be organized in a hyper-linked tree with extensive >> indexing is good. In fact, it would be just peachy if I could >> navigate the info documentation with my web browser. I thought there >> was supposed to be a texinfo to html translator, but for some reason >> the texinfo documents aren't delivered that way, and it would be a >> redundant use of space. An alternative might be a CGI program that >> would let the web server translate the .info files into html on the >> fly; has anyone written something like that? >> > > >It still won't make "man basename" work;-) lynx http://localhost/man.cgi?basename&chap=2 ;o) ===