david wrote:
> Laura wrote:
>
> > I interpreted this to mean local sysadmins at the site where you are
> > running nmh, i.e. somebody at Chalmers University, not you people. If
> > you want to hear from people, I think you need to be a whole lot more
> > welcoming.
>
> How about this, in nmh(7) and the output from install-mh(1):
>
> BUGS
> Send bug reports, questions, suggestions, and patches to nmh-
> [email protected]. That mailing list is relatively quiet, so user
> questions are encouraged. Users are also encouraged to subscribe.
>
> If problems are encountered with an nmh program, they should be
> reported to the local maintainers of nmh, if any, or to the mailing
> list noted above. When doing this, the name of the program should be
> reported, along with the version information for the program.
>
> To find out what version of an nmh program is being run, invoke the
> program with the -version switch. This prints the version of nmh, the
> host it was compiled on, and the date the program was linked.
>
> New releases and other information of potential interest are announced
> at http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ .
>
> > This is one place where I would like a link to documentation, at some
> > master site, (so you can read it even if the docs never made it to
> > where they are supposed to be for your distro.)
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't such a site. If the man pages didn't get
> installed, that's a packaging problem. Modern nmh should be easier for
> packagers to deal with than older versions.
any reason we couldn't in principle have a separate git tree on
savannah just for "compiled" man pages, and other docs? i suppose
html would be most friendly, but a simple
nroff -man ali.1 | col -b
for each man page, along with a top-level index.html, might be a start.
paul
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