To:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
Cc:	S DOT Herbert AT sheffield DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Docs for DJGPP v1.11
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 1994 11:57:17 PDT
From:	"Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

In message <9404100101 DOT AA17702 AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>you write:
>    Do you plan to put your TeXInfo->man page software in the public
>domain?  I've commented before about the problem of keeping man pages
>up-to-date, and if you have something semi-automatic (totally
>automatic weapons require special licenses in the States anyway :->),
>even GNU might be interested in it.  Certainly lots of others would
>be, and they could update their bash and gawk pages, etc., even if you
>personally do keep up with the GNU releases of GCC.

Info is far superior to man, it would be more useful to
spend time learning info than writing a info->man converter
(which looses all the hypertext information).

tkman  (on wish/tcl) is pretty nice (it applies heuristics
to try to guess about which sections).  But the hypertext
links really aren't there.

It may make a lot more sense to write info->help/help->info for windows...

marty

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