Man page html file set, where can I get?

J. Starr

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Jul 11, 2001, 12:10:19 AM7/11/01

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Often I'd like to look up something in the unix/linux man pages but I
don't have my unix/linux box running and I don't want to go on-line.
I'd like to have man page files on my Win98 box that are in html form
(i.e., with cross links). I have found plenty of sites with man pages
but again, I don't want to take the time to go on-line. And I've found
text only man page files, but that's not what I want.

Where can I download a file that I can expand to unix/linux man pages in
html form?

Thanks for any help,
Jim

P.S. Sorry about the bogus anti-spam address, please post any answers to
the group.

Dennis Peterson

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Jul 11, 2001, 1:10:09 AM7/11/01

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Find a copy of nroff for Windows and make copies of all your man pages
on your Windows file system. If you also have a web server and perl you
can get man2html - it's on the internet. Or get U/Win - it's on the net,
too. Don't know how a Windows user can do without it, in fact.

Dennis Peterson
CTO, One Stop Consulting, Inc.
Seattle, WA ... http://ThinkUNIX.com

Dave Uhring

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Jul 12, 2001, 12:10:48 AM7/12/01

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J. Starr wrote:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#man

Don't know how linux manpages are going to help with Solaris, tho. You
might install ab2 which has a webserver interface at port 8888.

Peter Shankey

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Jul 18, 2001, 9:54:12 AM7/18/01

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In solaris when you install answer book you have the man pages in html.

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Lon Stowell

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Jul 18, 2001, 10:36:26 PM7/18/01

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In article <20010718...@wando.charlestoncounty.org>,

Peter Shankey <shankeyp@{NO-SPAM}its.charlestoncounty.org> wrote:
>In solaris when you install answer book you have the man pages in html.

You have the AnswerBooks such that they will display on
a web browser in HTML. The AnswerBooks themselves are
not HTML....according to the AnswerBook documentation
and inspection of the files.

man2html can generate HTML from standard man page formats
on the fly, or you can convert them in batch to HTML
[the latter task I am sure could be done better with
less PITA with another tool, but man2html CAN do it
with a bit of help from a front-end script.]

Stuart Krivis

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Jul 25, 2001, 6:58:18 AM7/25/01

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On 19 Jul 2001 02:36:26 GMT, Lon Stowell <lsto...@lenny.sfrn.dnai.com> wrote:
> In article <20010718...@wando.charlestoncounty.org>,
> Peter Shankey <shankeyp@{NO-SPAM}its.charlestoncounty.org> wrote:
>>In solaris when you install answer book you have the man pages in html.
>
> You have the AnswerBooks such that they will display on
> a web browser in HTML. The AnswerBooks themselves are
> not HTML....according to the AnswerBook documentation
> and inspection of the files.

They're also available on Sun's web site.

Another good resource is www.freebsd.org They've got searchable man
pages for a number of flavors of unix on their site.

--

Stuart Krivis