At 14:51 11.11.99 +0100, Tony Grant wrote:

>man pages are OK but real live HTML docs are todays answer to man pages
>IMHO.

??? Both serve two entirely different purposes. man pages are intended as a 
quick _reference_ and as such are meant to be terse. One, at most two 
pages, not more. Some of the man pages^Wbooks I have seen on linux defeat 
that purpose, though.  =8/

Tutorials and HowTo documents are well-suited for html, but when you need 
those it is pretty clear you have to take your time, anyway.

And if you feel you cannot do without html docs, there are ?roff-to-html 
converters.

         hauke

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