Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 08:30:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, docs@freebsd.org, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Subject: Re: How to read HTML file in FreeBSD(base system) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403090823310.71288@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <531B6B77.1040907@freebsd.org> References: <E3089E7F-38A8-4C2A-A446-FA1BA8F1355A@yahoo.com> <20140308142656.cfcbdea1daaeed5ada8c1111@yahoo.es> <531B6B77.1040907@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2014, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 3/8/14, 5:26 AM, Eduardo Morras wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:36:16 +0800 >> by <free7by@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I use FreeBSD 10.0 RELEASE now, and I just install the base system, >>> but I add doc when I install FreeBSD, so there are some docs in my >>> system, and they are HTML files, so I want to ask that does FreeBSD >>> provide some utilities to read HTML file in terminal? >>> >>> You may say w3m is a good choice : ) >>> I have use it before, it is a great web browser in CLI, and its use >>> experience is like vi : ) But I must install it from ports or src by >>> myself, so does FreeBSD provide some utilities in base system to >>> implement that? >> I think no one has answered your original question. No, there's no browser >> in Base to read FreeBSD Base documentation in HTML. You must install >> something from ports always. If you want install w3m as pkg, pkg must be >> installed from ports first. >> > Base documentation is derived from sources which can also deliver other > media types. > Try formatting them as text. A Doc team member can probably tell you how to > do that. The XML documents like the Handbook can be built as text with make FORMATS=txt Building the documents from source requires installation of the textproc/docproj metaport. Text versions are generated from the HTML version with www/links using -dump. But if www/links is installed, the HTML versions can be read directly: links book.html
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