Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:49:12 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Libc reference in HTML?
Cc: Gertjan Klein <gklein AT xs4all DOT nl>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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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