[MPlayer-users] About the RTFM ...

Gerhard den Hollander gerhard at jasongeo.com
Fri Apr 26 10:09:01 CEST 2002


* Peter Meilstrup <pm at its.caltech.edu> (Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:11:50PM -0700)

> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Just a small thing:

> > For a lot of people using UNIX systems the *manual* is *the man pages*, so
> > it could be nice if all the command line options were documented in this FM
> > and not only in the HTML. Specially when mplayer is that command line
> > oriented.

> I agreee. Half the time when I look something up in the mplayer man page what I
> really need is in the HTML docs. The other half of the time I go to the HTML
> documentation and what I really need is in the manpage. It would be really nice
> if these were organized in a better way.

rewrite the kmanuals using pod (the perl thingy) and then use pod2man,
pod2html and pod2text to generate all 3 fromt he same source ?

Unfortunately I do not have the time to undertake such a merge / switch 


> 
> --Peter Meilstrup
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