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).
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