[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Advertising Slave mode

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 23 August 2005 at 20:51, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 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".

A symlink would suffice, with the addition that we could automatically
switch on the slave mode if the binary is called mplayer-slave.

> > 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.

And not a bad idea it is. I second that.

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