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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:
> >
> > 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?  

www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/basiclinux.htm

I just posted the 42K man2html (which I got from some package - man.tgz?)  
and the one-line script, and lynx is already there.  I don't recall how
James and Steven got this working with links but I will be happy to post
that script if you remind me what it is.  I never had any problem with it 
other than it being rather slow if you searched all of /usr.

> 
> > than that and we already have links to use with it.  
> 
> IIRC, the script was for lynx, not links.  More complications.

Lynx is in my opinion a lot more useful than groff and man, and takes up 
less space.  

> 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.

Two pieces, and I gave instructions where to put them in BL2.
Is zcat not already part of BL2?  


#!/bin/bash
zcat `find /usr -name $1.*gz` | man2html | lynx -stdin

I recall links not working with stdin and you had to write an extra line 
or something, maybe create a file and pipe it to links.  And it is 
important to use ` and not '.  


> 
> 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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