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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Sindi Keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] man2html script
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:54:59 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > it displayed a valid html page in Lynx, much like the
> > hotlist.html page you created for links-0.93. So,
> > it seems to work. What's next?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> zcat `find /usr/man/man* -name $1.*` | man2html | lynx -stlin
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
Yes, Steven, that works just as advertised (after correcting "-stlin" for
"-stdin", of course). The relevant manpages display like normal html
files under Lynx. Thanks so much for helping us develop this little
script for manpage viewing with Lynx. Sindi should be delighted with it
too.

James




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