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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Adding five more packages that take up 8MB is not what 
> I would call 'easy'.  

What's difficult about executing five installpkg commands?
It's certainly easier than hunting around for some script 
you "think" James wrote. 

> Man2html is much smaller 

And where exactly is he going to get that?  

> than that and we already have links to use with it.  

IIRC, the script was for lynx, not links.  More complications.

Unless you can provide a complete list of where to find all the 
necessary bits & pieces for your method (and how to get them to 
work), then you are giving Marcus a more difficult method to read 
man pages.

Cheers,
Steven




> 
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> 
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