On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > While looking at the manual (build 3643) I ran across mention of giving > driver parameters if the driver was in the kernel or a module (putting them > in the LILO config file for example). Is this still pertinent? I've been > using brltty for 5 years and I think all this predates any of my experience. > Does it serve any purpose other than scare the bejunior out of newbies?
It is probably unneeded information these days. > Also and not very related, I saw on the internet that the command sgml2txt > is "an old and obsoleted form of the linuxdoc -b command." I suppose this is > known and just hasn't been worth the bother to change, but it's interesting > that the text version of the manual can't really be displayed successfully > by less, at least on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (It works but displays hex > characters in Stefane Doyon's name among many other places.) The text > version is however the best place to look if you have to search for > something. That's because the text version is using the ISO-8859-1 character set while your environment is probably expecting UTF-8. Might be a good idea to convert the manual to UTF-8 now as well. Nicolas _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
