From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29187 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:34:24 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA08834; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:09:06 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:09:06 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <3061.199603180908@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl To: bas@astro.uva.nl (Bas V. de Bakker) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:07:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199603180822.DAA08368@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu> from "Bas V. de Bakker" at Mar 18, 96 09:21:52 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7216.90 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"NjOml2.0.v92.nWIJn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/838 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >Zefram writes: > >[quoted out of context] >> HTML is irrelevant. >> an info file, which is also irrelevant. > >Could you explain this? I think info files are quite useful. IMHO, >they are easier to navigate than long man pages, whether those man >pages are split or not. It may be useful, but it's not directly relevant to this discussion. We're discussing documentation for a Unix shell, so the primary requirement is that we have online documentation in the form of a Unix man page. Info is an unnecessary extra. HTML is even less useful. Automated conversion to TeX or LaTeX, however, is of some use, as a nice printed manual would be a good thing. (But it is possible to simply print the man page anyway.) -zefram