Just for curiosity's sake...

[Lucio De Re]

A funny coincidence would have tech...@netbsd.org debating the merits
of HTML for man pages while the Plan 9 mailing list is discussing the
difficulties involved in developing a light-weight web browser.

And then along comes David Korn :-)

Gleaned from the uwin-announce mailing list. The software (it's worth
more than a passing glance) is at

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

.

----- Forwarded message from David Korn <d...@research.att.com> -----

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:31:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Korn <d...@research.att.com>
X-Mailer: mailx (AT&T/BSD) 9.8 2000-02-29
To: uwin-a...@research.att.com, uwin-...@research.att.com
Subject: UWIN 2.2 now available for download
Precedence: bulk

[ ... ]

More of the commands in 2.2 now support long options with leading --
and have self generating help messages which can be generated by running
command --help
or
command --man
In addition, man -b will run command --html, and display the resulting
html file in your browser. Most of the man pages are also
accessible from the UWIN home page by clocking on 'Utilties that
come with UWIN'.

[ ... ]

----- End forwarded message -----

[Lucio De Re]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:04:56PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> A funny coincidence would have tech...@netbsd.org debating the merits
> of HTML for man pages while the Plan 9 mailing list is discussing the
> difficulties involved in developing a light-weight web browser.
>
> And then along comes David Korn :-)
>
> Gleaned from the uwin-announce mailing list. The software (it's worth
> more than a passing glance) is at
>
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

Oh, dear, beware of lonely dots in a line. I guess I'd better repost
the remainder :-)