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From:
Brad Gilbert
Date:
April 29, 2010 14:26
Subject:
Re: Broken pod links
Message ID:
s2x34ef41721004291425m685f6c11g72edc6bd41db965b@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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)> ?
>
You only need http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=man+X+Y The important part
is that btnI is in the request.
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