In a message dated: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:14:22 EDT
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
>
>I think that one of the more interesting indicators about
>the alleged popularity of (tex)info is its endorsement and
>embracement by the major commercial UNIX vendors -- NOT!!
>
>(Can anyone name a major commercial UNIX distribution that
>uses [tex]info by default?)
>
>Around here, the man pages are writtin SGML and a special
>concoction of the 'man' command displays it in text (with
>some ANSI escape sequences for underlining and bolding
>occasionally), because it also permits conversion to
>PostScript for use by the paper documentation library.
That's exactly what Sun is doing now to. Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 man pages
are hugely improved over 2.5.x.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
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