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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > BL2 is not set to read man pages easily.  
> 
> Oh yes it is.  The instructions are at the BL2 site.  

Adding five more packages that take up 8MB is not what I would call 
'easy'.  Man2html is much smaller than that and we already have links to 
use with it.  

> --------------------------------------------------------
> ADDING MANPAGES TO BASICLINUX
> This requires five packages (and fills 8mb of HD space).  
> First, you need the manpages and the man command -- 
> that's two packages.  Groff is used to decifer the   
> manpages and less is used to display them, so that's 
> two more.  Groff needs a special library -- that's five.
>     installpkg man.tgz          ##  a9
>     installpkg manpages.tgz     ##  ap1
>     installpkg groff.tgz        ##  ap1 
>     installpkg less.tgz         ##  a7
>     installpkg cxxlibs.tgz      ##  a3
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven