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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Adding five more packages that take up 8MB is not what
> > I would call 'easy'.
>
> What's difficult about executing five installpkg commands?
> It's certainly easier than hunting around for some script
> you "think" James wrote.
>
> > Man2html is much smaller
>
> And where exactly is he going to get that?
>
> > than that and we already have links to use with it.
>
> IIRC, the script was for lynx, not links.  More complications.
>
> Unless you can provide a complete list of where to find all the
> necessary bits & pieces for your method (and how to get them to
> work), then you are giving Marcus a more difficult method to read
> man pages.

I recall it working with both links and lynx.  Though it seemed like a
really great idea in principle, in practice I found it unsuitable.  The
html pages man2html finally rendered out of the manpage had some minor
misalignments of text: with manpages, it is crucial that text lines up
perfectly (e.g., an optional argument with the description of what that
argument does).  I kind of gave up on it for this reason.

James

PS  Steven really wrote the script: I just made some halting attempts, and
he jumped in and offered corrections.

> >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > ADDING MANPAGES TO BASICLINUX
> > > This requires five packages (and fills 8mb of HD space).
> > > First, you need the manpages and the man command --
> > > that's two packages.  Groff is used to decifer the
> > > manpages and less is used to display them, so that's
> > > two more.  Groff needs a special library -- that's five.
> > >     installpkg man.tgz          ##  a9
> > >     installpkg manpages.tgz     ##  ap1
> > >     installpkg groff.tgz        ##  ap1
> > >     installpkg less.tgz         ##  a7
> > >     installpkg cxxlibs.tgz      ##  a3
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Steven
> >
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