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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:

> The script worked beautifully.  I need to start with gz files or it tells
> me I don't have a valid man page.  I also needed to rename lynx-ssl to
> lynx or it would tell me lynx:  command not found (mc did the same thing
> when I tried to view html pages).  I had set an alias to type lynx and run
> lynx-ssl.  I will attempt next to find some way to automatically set
> man2html to find the relevant man page - I think there was some file
> describing how to do this but at the time I did not have lynx.  This setup
> would be a useful way to save 8MB disk space on an old computer through
> not needing to install groff.
>
Please do report onlist when you get this working, Sindi.  I'd like to set
this up myself.  Just as a quick confirmation on what's being talked
about: the idea here is to use lynx or links to view manpages (instead of
groff), right?  And the problems are: 1) uncompressing the man pages so
man2html can work on them; and 2) specifying the correct file for
zcat/man2html to operate on, so as not to have to go hunting for it?

Thanks, James