Re: [TCLUG:20872] [OT] GNU tar question

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20872] [OT] GNU tar question
From: "John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:10:44 -0500
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On Friday, September 01, 2000, Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, those GNU people and their darn info pages.
> 
> It wouldn't be so bad if the standard info browser wasn't freakin'
> stupid. Yay pinfo.
> 
> I think the unix documentation system need to be totally rethought.
> There's been a lot of advances in typesetting since the 60s. Something
> in XML, accessible via web browser, yeah...

Well, there is DocBook, which comes in both SGML and XML flavors, and
can be converted to a variety of formats, including HTML, PS, PDF, DVI,
and probably man and texinfo (not sure about texinfo).  Nautilus, the
new GNOME file manager/browser will be able to convert DocBook to HTML
on the fly, removing the need for a (huge) properly configured SGML
environment.

John

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