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On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi, one thing I find difficult about BL is that it only has a small
> selection of man pages that can be read.
> > From what I can see, it is neccessary to install groff in order to
> see any more. This is pretty crazy because the groff package is
> huge and no doubt will have additional dependances. Also I
> doubt that I would use groff for anything else.
> Does anyone know of an alternative to this? Surely with all
> the minidistros around, someone will have come up with something?
>
> BL has its own way of dealing with a few manpages, but Im guessing
> that this wouldnt be viable to extend to all the pages which
> come in different directories and probably different formats.

Steven converted the BL3 man pages to text somehow.

Man.tgz for Slackware 7.1 came with man2html in man.tgz (1.5h) but it was 
not yet included in an earlier man in Slackware 4.0.  I was able to 
compile man-1.5k for glibc (man2html and other programs that don't all 
work).  The included 'man' program requires nroff.

zcat file.1.gz | man2html | lynx -stdin

or

gunzip file.1.gz
man2html file.1.gz > file.html
links to view

I may try compiling man2html for libc5 eventually.

Sindi

> --
> Bye now, Ian.