[MPlayer-users] Re: Doc's Suggestion

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 05 January 2003, Gerhard Strangar wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > What proprietary formats? texinfo is a fairly old,
> 
> It doesn't matter how old they are. You need a special program to view
> this file, be it open or closed source.

Same goes for man (troff) format. In fact, texinfo is more readable in
any text viewer than man.

> > In fact, for many GNU tools, the texinfo docs are far more complete
> > than the corresponding man pages.
> 
> Microsoft uses Word documents and CHM files for their documentation and
> viewers for these formats are free, too. But installing lots of programs
> to view the documentation simply sucks.

CHM is not an open format. texinfo is.

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