From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 18:41:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net (cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net [198.5.241.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AF737B630 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from csserve0.corp.us.uu.net by cmr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: csserve0.corp.us.uu.net [153.39.88.140]) id QQmgfq17963; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 02:36:52 GMT Received: from haiti.corp.us.uu.net by csserve0.corp.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: localhost [127.0.0.1]) id QQmgfq23311; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:36:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jamgill@localhost) by haiti.corp.us.uu.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2F2aZc09411; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:36:35 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: haiti.corp.us.uu.net: jamgill owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:36:35 -0500 (EST) From: "jamgill@uu.net" X-Sender: jamgill@haiti.corp.us.uu.net To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: RE: man pages to hmtl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 Yes. It is a CGI script which will run on a webserver. You can download the code, it's the top FAQ about the manpages in fact: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi/faq.html I still don't understand why it is a mor attractive option to you to use a text-based browser and convert the manpages to HTML instead of using the plain old man(1) command and reading them in that format. Satisfy my curiosity, tell me why ;-) --gill On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > Let me clearify what I think you said. > The man page lookup function at freebsd.org that I have been using > all along is contained in a tar file someplace at freebsd.org and > I can download it to my FBSD box to use as I which? > > If this is true, can you point me to it's location? > > -----Original Message----- > From: jamgill@uu.net [mailto:jamgill@UU.NET] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:51 AM > To: Joe & Fhe Barbish > Cc: FBSDQ > Subject: Re: man pages to hmtl > > > I am missing something here ... why is it easier to convert the > manpage to HTML and read it in lynx than to use man(1) and reat it with > your PAGER of choice (usually less(1) by default these days)? > > But, in aswer to your question, you could use the man.cgi that runs on > freebsd.org either via the internet or, if you are running a local > webserver, on your own machine. > > --gill > > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > Is there some easy way to take man ppp and have it > > converted to hmtl and placed in a directory so I can > > use lynx from the command line to read it? > > > > Or maybe the correct question is, are the man pages > > also in hmtl format and where do they live? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective > | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --gill | Tatu Ylonen, SSH 1.2.12 README: "Beware that the most effective | way for someone to decrypt your data may be with a rubber hose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message