[BRLTTY] Is there still need for the manual to mention drivers in the kernel?

Daniel Dalton d.dalton at iinet.net.au
Thu Mar 27 17:39:49 EDT 2008


On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

>> Also and not very related, I saw on the internet that the command sgml2txt
>> is "an old and obsoleted form of the linuxdoc -b command." I suppose this is
>> known and just hasn't been worth the bother to change,
>
> It's risky to make such assumptions. No, it wasn't known, at least by myself.
> Further investigation reveals, though, that linuxdoc itself appears to be
> somewhat obsolete. Its own man page says:
>
>   The  linuxdoc  suite  is  provided  for backward compatibility, because
>   there are still many useful documents  written  in  LinuxDoc  DTD  sgml
>   source.
>
> So ... Should we actually be upgrading to some newer format?

Well, I'm not sure. I saw this on the internet as well.
I don't think I could find a package for my debian box, but I didn't 
really look... :-)
So maybe its worth upgrading? I saw this quite a while ago about 4 
months... (That the format is out of date...)

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Daniel Dalton

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