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Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> writes:

> Installing Lynx wherever you need documentation is not a terribly good idea
> for the same reasons above.

A couple of the same reasons, maybe.  But it might be worth the trouble
to have a decent man page reader which the big web browsers are
decidedly not.  Man page users should be given a reader that has a good,
easy-to-use search function.  The normal "less" program used by "man"
allows regular-expression searching.  And "lynx" at least allows easy
typing-only searching without having to pop up a search window and get
the focus into the text field and have to move the thing off the top of
what you're trying to see.

Alternatively, it shouldn't be hard for an SA to write a man&less-using
"rman" command that gets its page via your network xfr program of
choice.  Or couldn't you just use "ssh" to run "man" remotely?

And it's not good to leave people without the very useful "apropos"
command (which reads only from small "whatis" files, I think).

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