Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a easy way is to write a frontend rpm -qal or something to check fro a list -qald should be better or implementing the dwww system from debian. > of documents avaialble on the system. the usual search directories > should be included of course, i.e.

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Brook humphrey
the point is to put a search engine on them. Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am aware that the howto's are in /user/doc but if the html versions > > were installed under /home/http along with mandrakeuser.org it would be > > easy to index the p

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am aware that the howto's are in /user/doc but if the html versions > were installed under /home/http along with mandrakeuser.org it would be > easy to index the pages with htdig. this would make it easy for anyone > with a browser to be able to sear

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Brook humphrey
I am aware that the howto's are in /user/doc but if the html versions were installed under /home/http along with mandrakeuser.org it would be easy to index the pages with htdig. this would make it easy for anyone with a browser to be able to search the howto's doc's whatever. The last part is th

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Brook humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you already have apache and dig in your distro this could very easily > make it searchable. As far as the distro being to big apache is not so > big and you get searchable help files. I'm sorry, but I am completely lost in space.. can you explain ? -

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~>It is true that it would be better to be easily informed, say, given a :~>package name, what sort of help/information system is available. :~> :~> :~>Anyone thinking this may be a good idea / anyone having an idea how we :~>could realize that ? "rpm -qd" is a good starting point. --

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Brook humphrey
you already have apache and dig in your distro this could very easily make it searchable. As far as the distro being to big apache is not so big and you get searchable help files. Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:06:25A

RE: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Geoffrey Lee
> > Yes, in the menu there's Help/Howto's, which brings up Netscape with the > html-Howto's. > > > However, that's true that it is sometimes hard for newbies to discover the > place for documentation for packages ; and also, once you know it, it's > not easy to browse in it if you don't like the c

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-26 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:06:25AM -0400, Hoyt wrote: > > BTW, there should be a better way to access the docs and READMEs that are >installed during the installation. They are everywhere and hard to find unless you >are good at grepping - and then

[Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

2000-05-25 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 01:06:25AM -0400, Hoyt wrote: > BTW, there should be a better way to access the docs and READMEs that are installed >during the installation. They are everywhere and hard to find unless you are good at >grepping - and then you need to know almost specifically what you are