On 24-May-2000 David Henningsson wrote: >>what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation >>is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is >>required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc >>AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... > > You're quite right. > > Could this be a solution? A new Debian utility called documentationview or > something, tree-organized like dselect. The first thing you do is to select > a category. And then you get maybe an HOWTO and a FAQ from there, and a > list of available programs/packages. If you select a package, available > help files from within that package is shown. Manuals, getting started > stuff, etc. And maybe links to configuration scripts? If you select one of > them, it could start up man, info, less, mozilla/lynx, or whatever is > appropriate. >
There is something akin to this now, it uses http on a local system. Look into doc-base and friends.
