RE: Herding kitty bits...managing a dispersed document collection

["Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>]

Mike,

Making everything a man page in /usr/doc would work for the technically proficient (the Unix folks) but would aggravate the PC crowd.  Just kiddin' :)

If you convert your docs to HTML or another format that all user can read (pdf?) you can put in on an intranet server. CPAN has several Perl tools to convert files from one format to another.

I would suggest apache, php, and MySQL or apache, Perl, PostgreSQL if you want a database-driven website. Alternatively, you could "simply" organize your intranet into the conventional tree structure. 

HTdig is a freely available search tool that you could use to search your intranet. Google is also available for your site.

Just an idea...

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
Las Vegas, NV

-----Original Message-----
From: mmcgraw -at- qualcomm -dot- com [mailto:mmcgraw -at- qualcomm -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 04:50 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Herding kitty bits...managing a dispersed document collection



My technical pubs group has been given the task of replacing an existing
document management system. 

<snip the facts>

Mike McGraw
Staff Technical Writer
QUALCOMM Inc.
San Diego, California


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