[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Advertising Slave mode

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/23/05, Oded Shimon <ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:31:02PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > mplayer-slave.1 (and maybe bind mplayer-slave to "mplayer -slave". I'm
> > not sure if what I'm saying is clear, but I'm sure ppl see the point.
> 
> You lost me on the 'bind' thing.. (you do know that '-slave' is a
> legitimate command line option?..)

Of course. What I meant by bind is like adding a shell script that
launches mplayer in slave mode when you call 'mplayer-slave'. Off
course, the command line arguments of mplayer-slave would have to be
"forwarded".


> I'm not sure if i preffer XML docs of man page for this thing.. i actually
> preffer the text file.. Text files for me personally have the biggest
> advantage of being the easiest thing to read, no special tool necessary and
> very little is "enhanced" by using other formats... but I do see your point
> in it not being popular...

slave.txt is organised in a man page-like layout. converting to a man
page won't be too time consuming.

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