Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 94 13:05:34 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	S DOT Herbert AT sheffield DOT ac DOT uk
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Info port to DJGPP

I said:
   > I think it's easier to add "if info is broken, first try running
   > unix2dos in the info directory" to the FAQ than to explain how to update
   > the tags.
and Stuart replied:
   Alternatively, port the info into something better.  GNU's Info is slow,
   confusing to the non-initiate, and unsatisfactory for searches *imho*.

Are you going to *support* (ie, maintain, bug-fix, and update
consistently) these man pages?  If not, then they will very quickly be
out of date.  Every recent GNU program comes with a warning that man
pages are not to be relied upon and will not be supported.
    A better idea (not mine) would be to turn them into html docs and
get someone to put them up on World-Wide-Web.  We'd also need to port
a stand-alone reader so that people without WWW access could FTP the
docs.
    --Steve

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