Subject: Re: HTML browser
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/08/2003 10:08:59
In message <p06001a01bb595b7a8fb8@[67.75.12.40]>, "Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D." wr
ites:
>Look guys, I consider html to be a pain in the posterior but nobody 
>asked me, right?
>I guess html is going to be the standard for documentation, based on 
>the notion that "everybody is on the web"
>(I would prefer acrobat pdf personally, another thing nobody asked.)

PDF sucks.  Why on *EARTH* should there be "page breaks" in an electronic
document?

>Butif we are going to do that, never mind that it takes 46 days to 
>make the READMEs for the whole pkgsrc, then why, oh why do we NOT 
>have some rudimentary browser installed as a standard part of the 
>netBSD distribution?

Good question, actually.  I'd vote for lynx, if we're doing docs.

-s