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- I just made our man page, RFC and info gateways available for
- anonymous ftp (ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu, /pub/www/cis.tar.Z). I've
- included our patches to WAISGate that allow it to use a rules file to
- remap document addresses to other gateways. There's a brief README
- and a longer about_this_cobweb.html that describe how things fit
- together.
-
- The man page converter works on the formatted versions of the man
- pages, so that we don't have to deal with the various macro packages
- as well as eqn and tbl. We create the HTML versions of all of the man
- pages and store those somewhere for efficiency (time, not space!).
- The converter turns man page and rfc references into anchors.
-
- The rfc converter works on the fly - it retrieves things from our
- anonymous ftp repository, uncompresses them, and converts them into
- html, turning things that look like rfc references into anchors.
-
- The infogate daemon is a modified version of the info2html script
- written by Eelco van Asperen <evas@cs.few.eur.nl>. Like the rfc
- converter, it works on the fly. References look like "tar.info",
- which would retrieve the node named "Top" from the file tar.info, or
- "tar.info,Why", which refers to the node named "Why".
-
- Have fun, let me know if you find bugs. Since this stuff is available
- now, I'd appreciate it if sites could set up their own man page
- gateways - we don't have a way to restrict access right now, but I am
- somewhat concerned about licensing violations and all that. We plan
- to leave the rfc, ien, and emacs info gateways open, and you're
- welcome to use them.
-
- It isn't mentioned much in the docs, but the Makefile includes the
- commands we use to index the Usenet FAQ's from news.answers. You
- might find that useful as well.
-
- --- Steve
-
-