ssh -X shop problem...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:50, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that.  Frankly, linux
>> documentation is in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly
>> because of the forking away from the universal manpage that has been
>> done to the doc format.  I don't know of the times I've needed to
>> look at something in docbook format, even coming to this list to ask
>> what others are using to view/print those things, and have been
>> universally ignored, I assume because everyone is supposed to know
>> WTF a docbook file is. Heck, just a simple little menu choice called
>> "docbook reader" would suit 99% of this, but in the 5 years since
>> everyone got on that bandwagon, I've yet to see a reference that
>> says what is to be used to read them with.
>
>Can you give some examples of when you find a need to read raw docbook
>documentation?  I thought that docbook was for creating xml or sgml
>that would be converted to another format for end-user viewing.  See
>the docbook2... commands in the docbook-utils package.
>
>In the case of the difference between the -X and -Y options to ssh,
>the format of the documentation isn't at all the issue, it's the
>content I believe Les was referring to.

yes, the format was entirely incidental to the amazing lack of content.

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