Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Apr2018 01:29, sam varshavchik wrote: Cameron Simpson writes: Well I was using Perl's POD format several years ago as my primary manual writing syntax, generates man and html. Good HTML to XHTML might be an easy transcription, I've not tried. Not specificly recommending POD, it was just

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Cameron Simpson writes: On 01Apr2018 23:55, sam varshavchik wrote: Cameron Simpson writes: There are plenty of popular human friendly formats out there like markdown and restructured text etc which render to various output formats. Which "human friendly" format can I use which already has

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Apr2018 23:55, sam varshavchik wrote: Cameron Simpson writes: There are plenty of popular human friendly formats out there like markdown and restructured text etc which render to various output formats. Which "human friendly" format can I use which already has tools to generate both wel

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Cameron Simpson writes: On 01Apr2018 18:19, sam varshavchik wrote: If this is your app and your documentation, I suggest you spend the time converting your app's documentation to Docbook XML, and then use docbook tools to generate both HTML and man page documentation from your docbook so

Re: USB issues in fedora-27 ("can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable") not happening when booted into CentOS-6.2, same hardware

2018-04-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/02/18 10:06, Tom Hodder wrote: > So I've got a new webcam which is working, and I'm happy to scrap that old > webcam > as broken, but I'd like to fix those errors that occur in the lsusb output Good that you now have a working webcam.  Not all webcams work on linux. Don't worry about

Re: USB issues in fedora-27 ("can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable") not happening when booted into CentOS-6.2, same hardware

2018-04-01 Thread Tom Hodder
On 30 March 2018 at 04:15, Ed Greshko wrote: > > The error above is being reported by the uvcvideo module which is part of > the > kernel. For informational and debugging information the first thing I > would do is > determine what kernel version is in used for Centos 6.2 v.s. F27. I'm > prett

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:54:27AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source > format for human written content. It is massively hostile to > authoring by hand. Yes. > Prehistoric it is not. Old yes, showing its age yes. But prehistoric > is

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Apr2018 18:19, sam varshavchik wrote: JD writes: I have an app that has no manpage, but has about 170 html files, all of which index into a subset of the 168 files. I would like to use an app that will produce a single manpage like text file. Is there an app that can do this? I don't kno

Re: html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
JD writes: Hi all, I have an app that has no manpage, but has about 170 html files, all of which index into a subset of the 168 files. I would like to use an app that will produce a single manpage like text file. Is there an app that can do this? I saw a few apps on google search, but none of

html to man page

2018-04-01 Thread JD
Hi all, I have an app that has no manpage, but has about 170 html files, all of which index into a subset of the 168 files. I would like to use an app that will produce a single manpage like text file. Is there an app that can do this? I saw a few apps on google search, but none of them are pro

Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

2018-04-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:41:53 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Practically this means you'll have to enter a password to open the > encrypted container every time *after* logging in to /home if you want > to see the data in it. It also means your data on that container will > remain encrypted

Re: Can I install gcc-8 from rawhide on F27?

2018-04-01 Thread George N. White III
On 30 March 2018 at 07:48, Neal Becker wrote: > There's a bug in gcc-7.3.1 that causes a crash on some code I need. Is it > safe to install gcc-8 from rawhide on F27? > Is there a patch for the bug? You may be better off waiting for an updated gcc-7 as gcc-8 probably has new bugs. -- George