Subject: Re: Another Manual ???
To: dkphoto <dkphoto@cyber-wire.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/20/2000 03:25:54
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:
> > NetBSD already has a documentation mechanism: man pages. IMO, *all*
> >documentation should go into man pages and be automaticly generated from
> >there to use as FAQs, install guides, and such.
>
> Paraphrased, you said: "Let's put the install instructions in the man
> pages!!!... inside the thing that we cannot possibly install without
> those locked-up instructions! That's kind of like saying, "Let's lock the
That's the first part of what he said... but note the "...and be
automaticly generated from there to use as ... install guides...." The
install instructions would be made available separately from the
manpages, but they'd only have to be maintained in a single location,
the manpages.