On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:37:27PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > > The obvious solution to this quandry, would be to put the URL in the man > page if the page applied to that implementation. Shouldn't that be easy > to do? (but it does leave out those poor unfortunates that do not have > internet access for whatever reason, say power loss, stupid security > features, too broke, etc. I love the Road Runner help desk when I can't > connect, they tell me to access the web site if I need help!) > > > >
I don't doubt that Debian is used where there is -no- Internet access or where Internet access is prohibited. Besides this, websites move, URLs change and documentation doesn't. Could you imagine a man page pointing you to a file on a gopher server?
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