Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

Yeah, I pointed that out to Chris.  We'll probably
use doc(1) or something like that.  We'll think of something.

How doc(1), or whatever we name it, will work is like this:

If you're in X, it'll pop up in Netscape if Netscape is installed
(what else would you use X for besides Netscape and terms,
anyways).  If you don't have Netscape, it'll pop up in an xterm
running lynx or w3m.  If you don't have lynx, it'll pop up in an
xterm that runs our html2ascii script.

It'll behave the same way in console, sans Netscape.

Nick Reinking






kbullock@ringworld.org, on 04/03/2000 08:14:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15481] Faeriedist

> help(1) would detect that you don't have an HTML reader and convert to
> ASCII instead, then run that through less. Also, standard man and info
> aren't going anywhere, don't sweat that.

There's just one problem with that theory: help is a bash builtin. If you
can get around that, cool (e.g. tcsh doesn't have help as a builtin -- but
if you switch to bash you should still be able to access the help(1) that
y'all are going to include).

Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa
Kevin R. Bullock


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