Re: man pages on win32

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Kevin HaleBoyes" <khaleboyes(at)chartwelltechnology(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Win32 port list" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: man pages on win32
Date: 2004-05-04 17:12:48
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34B928@algol.sollentuna.se
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I should've mentioned - the HTML pages should definitly go in, and we
should probably do a CHM file as well (windows help file). pgadmin has
one of the postgres docs, so we could probably adapt that one.

//Magnus

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
>Sent: den 4 maj 2004 18:40
>To: Kevin HaleBoyes
>Cc: PostgreSQL Win32 port list
>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] man pages on win32
>
>
>Hello,
>
>If we were to do it right, the man pages would be converted to Windows
>help files.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>Kevin HaleBoyes wrote:
>> I'm normally a lurker here but as I've not seen anyone else
>> respond I thought I'd give my opinion.
>>
>> I would install the man pages on win32. They are a nice form
>> of documentation for those of us that come from the Unix world.
>> Isn't there a man reader in Cygwin? I know the native port will
>> not need Cygwin, but many people will already have it, especially
>> those that know about man pages.
>>
>> Just my two cents.
>> Kevin.
>>
>>
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Does anybody see any reason at all to install the man pages
>on win32?
>>> Considering there is no man reader...
>>>
>>> //Magnus
>>>
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