> ??? You can look at an HTML file directy with any browser. If you're SSH-ing > in to a remote system, use Lynx. Though I agree that providing both man and > html would be nicer.
Try accessing a HTML file on a Linux system from a PC-based browser. Unless you have some kind of file sharing software running, which I generally don't because the only times I've ever been hacked into they got in through file sharing ports, you can't get there from here. > O'Reilly seems to be pretty hit-and-miss on this account. The Perl books are > well-indexed, but "SQL in a Nutshell" has *no* index, perhaps because > O'Reilly thought (wrongly) that it didn't need one because of the > dictionary-like format. The O'Reilly label is not a guarentee of quality, > just a general indicator. I think the 'Nutshell' books are a different breed of cat, none of them have ever had indexes worth mentioning. > Authors seldom do the indexes themselves, as indexing is a black art known to > few (and I have yet to see a really good index prepared by the author -- I've been somewhat involved in three book projects (two textbooks and one rule book), in all three case the authors did their own index. Maybe I've just had a good run of luck on the O'Reilly books I've bought, or maybe I haven't bought as many of them in the last three or four years as I used to. -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
