Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/07/22/10:29:47
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> Now: I say man pages must be in plain text format (I
> don't say the others must be supresed, just add .txt versions)
> because you need extra tools to read it.
I don't see any extra tool required: info.exe will display these man
pages automagically. Just say "info ispell" and it will be displayed,
with all the BS characters stripped by info.exe. You even don't need to
bother remembering whether Ispell has Info docs or a man page, and
neither do you need to remember to say "info ispell.1".
> 1) If you say: info files must be in a format readable by *any* DOS
> editor.
> 2) Then I say: man pages too.
IIRC, that was not what I said back when the issue of Info files format
was discussed. What I said was that an Info reader should be able to
read and display both Unix- and DOS-style Info files, because somebody
might edit an Info file with a DOS editor which doesn't preserve the text
file format (most of the DOS/Windows editors don't, they always write
files with a CR-LF pair at the end of every line). In such a case, and
Info reader that doesn't support DOS-style text files will fail to read
the edited file.
This doesn't apply to a man page, since there's no problem with editing a
man page, all the programs which display them support both file formats.
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