From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 13:33: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F52737B406 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 24-161-164-113.san.rr.com (24-161-164-113.san.rr.com [24.161.164.113]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g47KWxd22726 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:32:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: man man ; man -r command_here Message-ID: <20020507132927.T752-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wouldn't it be great if there were some sort of "man -r" flag, so that the user could [remotely] read either the latest manpage (from an ftp server) or a manpage for a binary he or she does not have installed? This would be similar to the "pkg_add -r" ideology. Stretching this one step further, "man -www command_here" would attempt to obtain a list of URLs and references that best pertain to "command_here!" -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message