G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> T. Kurt Bond wrote:
>> Back in the day I found it quite useful to convert troff documents to
>> HTML.
I remember running KDE 1.0 on my beige Mac G3, pre-MacOSX. The
browser, Konqueror, supported a “man:” scheme. So in the browser,
I could enter a URI like “man:ls” and it would display a pretty well-
rendered version of the manpage. It was rare to have significant issues
with the rendering. I still miss that.
> ...though if somebody threw me the task with no guardrails, I'd probably
> bootstrap a bare metal machine with a tower of Forths, progressing from
> something like Sergeant's "three instruction Forth"[1] up to an ANS
> Forth. Interestingly to me, GNU Forth is only about twice the size of
> TinyScheme (not counting documentation and Elisp crutches for GNU Emacs
> users).
OMG, Forth! In 1980, I had an AIM-65 with the Forth ROMs on it. I wrote a
D&D die generator that made life soooo much easier for our weekend runs…
but when the little printer started churning, we all wondered what Carl was
going to throw at us THIS time. :-D
In a lame attempt to get back onto the original topic… I’ve marked the
`explain` utility (in the WSB README) as unnecessary, as GNU diction has
an -s/—suggest option to cover that function. The magic AI box explained
the GNU diction database format, and that’s going into UTP Revisited (and
that should do for dictadd, too). So of the 22 WWB utilities I’ve identified,
I’m down to 6 that need either replacements or reasons why they don’t
need to be replaced.
Larry
