Re: Informix manuals online

In article <3161l0$ihv@infmx.informix.com> davek@informix.com (David Kosenko) writes: > Very good. The question now arises: what format should they be in? > > man() format won't work, because the majority of the material does not lend > itself to such a format. Someone has mentioned the On-Line workstation > manual, which is really neat, but which requires the Framemaker product, > which you have to buy yourself. To have a really effective on-line manual > (not to be confused with an OnLine manual), you want the point-and-click, > cross reference stuff. This means buying software to provide this > capability. Would this be acceptable to those of you desiring on-line > documentation? > > Just something to think about. > > Dave Kosenko What about gnu emacs? Its Info mode provides exactly what we need. I think that at most everyone is capable of reading BNF grammars, so we don't need no graphics. Plain text is sufficient. And emacs is public domain. Additionally, there is xinfo for those who prefer vi (which should be a succincting species :) Just a thought. Heinrich. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= /M/A/I Deutschland GmbH, Softwarezentrum Koeln Heinrich Seebauer Mathias-Brueggen-Str. 85 Software Engineering 50829 Koeln, Federal Republic of Germany Phone: x221/956400-0 Phax: x221/956400-69 emale: heinrich@mai.de =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=