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Re: man heimdal
- To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
- Subject: Re: man heimdal
- From: Daniel Ramaley <daniel_(_dot_)_ramaley_(_at_)_DRAKE_(_dot_)_EDU>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:19:37 -0600
- Organization: Drake University
>> Perhaps I am setting myself up to learn how to convert info pages
>> into a good man page.....
>
>By all means, please do! And please realize that this work would be
> much larger than a simple file-format conversion - texinfo-pages are
> structured in a completely different way compared to man-pages.
>
>I'm not saying it's impossible - just that it's a *lot* of manual work
>that needs to be kept uptodate.
Something that may help in the conversion is info2man:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/info2man/
It looks like it uses Perl to convert info pages to POD, then convert
the POD to man pages.
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