discuss: man program able to use docbook files instead man-pages

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Subject: Re: man program able to use docbook files instead man-pages
From: Hal Burgiss ####@####.####
Date: 14 Jul 2002 02:51:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20020713225109.N2027@feenix.burgiss.net>

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 08:40:43PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > # Convert to *roff
> > nsgmls $SGML_FILE  | sgmlspl \
> > $SGML_BASE_DIR/docbook/utils-0.6.9/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl
> > if [ $? -ne 0 ]
> > then exit 1
> > fi
> > 
> > exit 0
> 
> Tacky. Why not "exit $?"? But I pick nits.

Why three wrappers? :) 

I just use the one line in a Makefile and let it handle error conditions.
 
> Well, if they're from Cygnus, they may be designed to run on and use
> character sets from a certain braindead OS.

http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/

Hmmm...just looked at the cvs, and there are recent changes. I even
see a 'fix &copy;' in Changelog :)

-- 
Hal Burgiss

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