Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:07:15 +0100 (MET)
From:	Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
To:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Cc:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Gertjan Klein <gklein AT xs4all DOT nl>,
	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Libc reference in HTML?
In-Reply-To:	<199712160349.TAA17918@adit.ap.net>
Message-Id:	<Pine.GSO.3.96.971216100521.8752C-100000@rtbsci143s>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> At 08:01  12/14/1997 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> >
> >> >I'm not aware of a place that offers libc docs in HTML format
> >> >available for ftp.
> >> But this question seems to come up fairly often. Isn't there a tool which
> >> turns texinfo into HTML? How does DJ do it for the web site? The libc manual
> >> does exist as one big texinfo file at one stage in its life; couldn't this
> >> tool be run on that and the result made available for mass consumption?
> >
> >The tool is texi2html; it's a Perl script.  So to produce the HTML docs,
> >the poor user should (a) download the libc sources; (b) install Perl; (c)
> >get texi2html from somewhere on the net; and (d) run all these together to
> >produce the HTML version. 
> >
> >Now, what do you think are chances that this will succeed for an average 
> >DJGPP user?
> Low, I agree, but I was suggesting that perhaps somebody could do it once,
> and then it could be made available for download on www.delorie.com or
> another suitable place.
> No, I'm not volunteering... :)
> 
> Nate Eldredge
> eldredge AT ap DOT net
> 
> 
> 
I've done the job, what shall I do now to upload the html version on
www.delorie.com  (I've never done an upload :) !

Olivier.

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