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Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bas V. de Bakker)
Subject: Re: ZSH presence on WWW cf. Perl
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:07:59 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199603180822.DAA08368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Bas V. de Bakker" at Mar 18, 96 09:21:52 am

>Zefram  <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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