will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:41:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> For what it's worth, I think the existing man page framework is fine for >> this (but then I would say that). Sure, some man pages are useless, and >> a lot of them are specific to individual programs. A lot of them are >> general introductions to things as well. There's also info and the >> HOWTOs. If you want to put some effort into improving Linux's help >> system, your time would be a lot better spent working on writing code >> thet indexes all of these in a friendly way (there are already GUI > >hmm. indexing the existing documentation ... > > manpages > info > /usr/share/doc/*...*/*.html > howto's > >is anybody pursuing something like this?
Not that I know of. /usr/sbin/accessdb dumps the full man database in a reasonably machine-readable form, if that would help (although details of the format may change slightly). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
