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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!hookup!olivea!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: man pages (was Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?) Message-ID: <jmonroyCyIvMs.4B1@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <jmonroyCxG277.1ML@netcom.com> <BLYMN.94Oct24192050@mallee.awadi.com.au> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 05:37:40 GMT Lines: 23 Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.au) wrote: : >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Z Goldsteen <ben@rex.uokhsc.edu> writes: : In article <Cy3DJ6.EDK@rex.uokhsc.edu> ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes: : Benjamin> Perhaps if every manpage became a little book with : Benjamin> chapters, table of contents, indexes, appendices, etc. : Benjamin> And all those minibooks are arranged in a large book : Benjamin> with the same components (and the superbook should also : Benjamin> provide continuity -- it shouldn't be just an : Benjamin> alphabetized bookshelf). : Hey yeah! We could have all the documents in postscript, have : hyperlinks to double click on a topic and leap straight to it, : indexes, tables of contents, a search tool that looks for things.... uh : oh, sounds awfully like Sun's AnswerBook to me ;-) : So we borrow a few good ideas... so what. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________