From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 09:45:08 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.999.1805160940160.79090@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515155621.0B986200C2@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond has a long-term plan underway to get all man-page source
> moved to DocBook or asciidoc using his doclifter program, and convincing
> projects to make the switch. Unfortunately, some have. DocBook stinks
> and it shows how long the project has been going that Eric chose it back
> when it and XML were still shiny.
I like the manpage format! It tells me everything I need to know, in the
correct order, and it's in good old plain ASCII...
Unfortunately it seems that the youngsters of today (i.e. those with no
sense of Unix history whatsoever) have been suckled on this Whizzy-Wig
stuff.
-- Dave
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2018-05-15 12:52 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 14:23 ` arnold
2018-05-15 15:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-15 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 16:53 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 16:55 ` arnold
2018-05-15 23:45 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-05-15 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-16 11:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:18 ` arnold
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2018-05-15 23:05 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 23:12 ` Noel Hunt
2018-05-25 7:01 ` aksr
2018-05-25 7:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 17:13 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 15:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 16:54 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 12:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 12:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 13:00 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 14:45 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:57 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 16:41 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-05-14 18:13 ` arnold
2018-05-14 18:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 18:25 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:33 ` arnold
2018-05-14 21:32 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-14 21:35 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 16:37 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 23:42 ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-14 14:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 14:46 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:07 ` Nemo
2018-05-15 14:37 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 14:55 ` Clem cole
2018-05-15 15:10 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 12:20 ` Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 15:10 ` arnold
2018-05-13 5:55 Rudi Blom
2018-05-12 11:01 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-12 11:38 ` Clem cole
2018-05-12 18:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-13 13:52 ` Nemo
2018-05-15 1:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 1:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:06 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-15 2:22 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-15 2:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:45 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 10:28 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-16 0:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 20:49 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-12 1:40 Nemo
2018-05-12 2:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 2:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-17 15:28 ` Blake McBride
2018-05-12 4:30 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-12 6:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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