Cezar Totth wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Satyen Mehta wrote:
>
> > What I don't understand, why sun is discouraging use of man pages, uh.
> > Thanks Mike.
>
> They needed a format portable across platforms - man pages are too
> unix-specific, less accessible to Windows and Mac users.
>
> Then is inefficient to use two formats - man and html.
>
To say nothing about the benefits of hyperlinks in your docs, or the ability to
include images and other HTML-based information, custom doclets (you can even write
your own doclet that produces man page formats if you really want them) ...
Oh heck, why should we bother to use the technology we are building apps for when
we've got a perfectly good 25-year-old non-hyperlinked text only format that is
OS-specific? :-)
>
> Cezar
Craig
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