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><H1
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>TLDP Weekly News</H1
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>Issue Number : </B
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>5<BR><B
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>Publication Date : </B
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>2003-05-20<BR><HR></DIV
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><DT
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><B
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>1. <A
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HREF="#AEN9"
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>New documents</A
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><DD
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><DT
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN11"
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>Fresh@LDP</A
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><DT
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="#AEN21"
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>Proposed new documents</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="#AEN30"
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>Submitted for review</A
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><DT
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>2. <A
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HREF="#AEN36"
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>Updates</A
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><DD
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><DT
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN38"
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>HOWTOs</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>3. <A
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HREF="#AEN65"
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>Happenings in the LDP world</A
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><DT
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="#AEN67"
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>License on the LDP documents</A
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><DT
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="#AEN73"
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><TT
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CLASS="literal"
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>man</TT
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> pages</A
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><DT
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>4. <A
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>Feedback and Contributions</A
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NAME="AEN9"
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>1. New documents</H1
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><H2
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><A
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NAME="AEN11"
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>1.1. Fresh@LDP</H2
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><P
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>New documents this week:</P
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><LI
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>After quite some struggle, here it is finally: the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/openMosix-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>openMosix HOWTO</A
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>, formerly known as the Mosix HOWTO, by Kris Buytaert.</P
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><LI
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>An anonymous person wrote a document in Spanish explaining how to install the ICA Citrix client and use it with the popular Spanish PADRE program. Our colleagues from TLDP-ES made it available as the <A
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HREF="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/padre-howto/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Padre-HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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></LI
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><DIV
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><HR><H2
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NAME="AEN21"
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>1.2. Proposed new documents</H2
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>Howard Shane sent in a proposal for a <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4386:200305:megoccnfpjhmfcoblbpf"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Scanner
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HOWTO</A
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></LI
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><LI
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>Weldon Goree
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<A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4388:200305:moabfbbcgplpcncljjjn"
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TARGET="_top"
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>proposed</A
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> a HOWTO on what dual-booting and multi-booting are and
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how to do them.
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</P
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><HR><H2
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NAME="AEN30"
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>1.3. Submitted for review</H2
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><UL
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><P
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>Daniel Nofftz's announced that his
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<A
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HREF="http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Athlon
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Powersaving HOWTO</A
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> is ready for review.</P
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NAME="AEN36"
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>2. Updates</H1
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>2.1. HOWTOs</H2
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><P
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>After the problems were solved last week, a whole bunch of pending upgrades came through:</P
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>Anders Jensen-Urstad supplies us with v1.5 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Game-Server-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Game Server HOWTO</A
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> and Peter Jay Salzman mailed v0.9.22 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Gamers-HOWTO/"
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>The Linux Gamers' HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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>Alavoor Vasudevan sent in yet another update for the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/"
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>Kernel HOWTO</A
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>, which is now at v5.7. He also moved the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO/"
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>Vim Color Editor HOW-TO</A
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> to DocBook.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/"
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>Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</A
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> v1.8, by Mendel Cooper.</P
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>Also by Peter Salzman: the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Debian-Jigdo/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>Skip Rye worked on v1.8 of the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Linux Optical Disk HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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>Svetoslav Slavtchev, one of the new TLDP authors, send in the first update to the <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/"
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>XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</A
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>.</P
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>Saqib Ali sent in <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-OpenJade-SGML-XML-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>the DocBook XML/SGML Processing Using OpenJade HOWTO</A
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>, v2.2.5.</P
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>3. Happenings in the LDP world</H1
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>3.1. License on the LDP documents</H2
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><P
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> Colin Watson, who maintains the Debian packages for LDP documents <A
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>sent
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in a mail</A
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> indicating that the old manifesto boilerplate license
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used on a number of LDP documents was considered non-free by Debian
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legal. He sent in the note that the Debian doc-linux-html and
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doc-linux-text packages will use the GNU GPL, which is permitted by the
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<A
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>clause 2</A
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>. David
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Lawyer however <A
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HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00245.html"
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>noted</A
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that It's only requested (not required) that the author be contacted in
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case of modifications which may not render the license non-free.
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</P
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>3.2. <TT
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>man</TT
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> pages</H2
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><P
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> Rahul Sundaram presented his <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4407:200305:ihpahginmljdgbhooeje"
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TARGET="_top"
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>opinion
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on</A
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> man pages. He said that they cater to the expert who already
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knows what s/he is dealing with and provided a few examples. Antony E.
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Greene <A
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TARGET="_top"
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>said</A
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> that there are two different needs addressed
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by tutorial or step-by-step instructions like the HOWTOs and a terse,
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but comprehensive man on info page. Howard Shane and Machtelt Garrels
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were of the opinion that the LDP should offer its services to improve
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the quality of man pages but that would be a difficult task with the
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resources at the disposal of LDP.
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</P
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><P
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> While on the thread, Greg Ferguson <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4409:200305:loceblldbelajghaloeg"
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>asked</A
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> if people would be interested in a collection of man pages (filtered to HTML via man2html; browseable, etc.) on the LDP site.
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</P
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> During the course of the discussion, <A
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HREF="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4426:200305:hgeoklcbfgegcnnilkkp"
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>jdd
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wondered</A
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> if there was some sort of a locate_doc that could
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detect automatically all the documentation available for an
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application. People suggested <A
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>scrollkeeper</A
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> and
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<A
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>dwww</A
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> from
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the Debian project.
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>4. Feedback and Contributions</H1
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>Please help us create this weekly newsletter. Seen a site putting
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in a story with a link to the LDP? Completed the translation of any
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HOWTO? Know of any articles about the LDP published in newspapers or
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magazines? We are curious ;-). You can help us by sending in links and
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information at <TT
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