Re: [Exim] Why no man pages for Exim on FreeBSD?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Juha Saarinen
CC: Sheldon Hearn, Tabor J. Wells, exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] Why no man pages for Exim on FreeBSD?
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> Hurrghh... can't we have man pages instead? Never thought I'd say that,
> but after doing the two-fisted keyboard routine when faced with "info", I
> think the simpler the better.


Well, the simplest is

vi exim-distrib-directory/doc/spec.txt

:-)

I am not prepared to maintain both the comprehensive reference manual,
AND separate man pages containing the same information. Also, I cannot
see any easy way of automatically generating man pages from the manual.
And how would you split up the manual into man pages? One per chapter?
In that case, why not just use the HTML format? It has an index and
table of contents, which are necessary adjuncts to a document of that
size.

Then there's the PostScript version for printing, of course...


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