On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Linux reference":
> > What is missing, IMHO, is a real MSDN like site. Something that will
> > give a spread of the man pages and header files with a search engine.
> 
> I agree that lately it seems that the Web has become everything, but really,
> in this case, why do you want to have this information on the Web, and not
> locally? Wouldn't it be better to some program (a beefed up version of xman,
> tkman, pinfo, or whatever) that give you access to the man pages, header 
> files,
> javadocs, info files, documentation PDFs, READMEs and so on and so on *on
> your system*? This will have several benefits over a Web version:
> 
> * The information you get is true to your exact system and the software
>   versions you have - not more and not less.
> * The information is always there and always quick (this is becoming less
>   and less of an issue, but sometimes still matters).

Debian users, check out dwww.

Debian packagers: mark documentation for doc-base.

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