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Article: 12866 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Francis R Bridge {BRIDGE1} <bridge@cig.mot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Dumb question about man pages
Date: 19 Oct 2001 15:33:30 -0500
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fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> In article <1400628.adu78ljVUC@ac.lisse.na>,
> Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.NA> wrote:
> : SGML is your friend :-)-O
> : ^
> Is that a stethoscope?
>
> Well I didn't run across anything perfect (i.e. quick, easy, and brainless)
> so since html can always be converted to plain text, the manpage might as
> well be done in html as in plain text in the first place. Then if an
> html-to-manpage converter comes to light in time, I'll use it, otherwise
> it's not that hard to convert plain text to nroff by hand, even if it has
> to be done for each C-Kermit release.
>
> - Frank
You could always write the conversion script in Kermit! ;-)