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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
April 26, 2010 10:06
Subject:
Re: Broken pod links
Message ID:
s2s51dd1af81004261006pced3a3a8pd79031939867a68d@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 16:44, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 18:18, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry for this last post, I missed your parenthesized "(broken)"
>>
>> Right, the concept is there. But the man page indexer that's being
>> linked to doesn't have that particular man page.
>
> I just added links to man.he.net. If they don't have it, they don't have it. Unless someone else wants to take on the job of a comprehensive index of every man page in existence, we're going to have to be tolerant of some broken links. If we're lucky, he.net will set up a 404 alert system to learn what man pages it might be useful for them to add.
How about just linking to
http://www.google.com/search?q=man+X+Y&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky for
values of L<Y(X)> ?
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