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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: AW: AW: [BL] german keyboard
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:30:28 -0500 (CDT)

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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