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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote: 
 
> Is there some way to read man pages from within a .tgz file so as to save 
> space on a small hard drive, using man2html and tar and links or lynx? 
>  
> Could a file be extracted and piped directly to man2html and then links or 
> lynx, using busybox tar? 
 
I think you would need one or two FIFOs to do this, as the latest versions 
of these software packages cannot do what you want with just stdin. 
 
You would need a FIFO for the man page to extract (unless you have enough 
space for it) and you would tell 'tar' to just extract that particular 
file (add the path to the file after the name of the .tgz archive. Example: 
 
$ mkdir files 
$ mkdir files/manpages 
$ mkfifo files/manpages/1.man 
$ tar -ztf 1.tgz 
files/manpages/1.man 
files/manpages/2.man 
$ tar -zxf 1.tgz files/manpages/1.man 
 
You would also need a FIFO for the HTML output. I don't know if lynx/links 
will even handle FIFOs, so you may need to use a larger hard drive anyway. 
 
David 

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