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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, ian wrote:

> Funny you  should mention that, my phone line just went completely
> dead, something to do with the snow we had recently, I bet.
> So this goes over the cell-phone network, expensive.

Does that work with linux?

> > zcat `find /usr -name $1.*gz` | man2html | lynx -stdin
>
> > This should find man pages anywhere in /usr and display them.
> > (You will also need lynx).

> Does that recurse directories? (do subdirectories as well) -- Ive never 
> used "find"

Yes.  If you put all man pages in the same directory (/usr/man) and change 
the script to find /usr/man it will go a lot faster.

> Wrote on my notepad today "install lynx", but now, with the phone
> line down, Ive got to spend ages setting up pegasus mail on this
> XP laptop, just so I can get mail.

You don't need lynx, but I don't know a way to pipe an html file to links. 
There is a recent lynxat my website (from Karolis) which only has the 
essentials.

> > or
> > zcat filename.gz | man2html > filename.html
>
> > and view with links (or elinks, dillo, opera, netrik, arena...)

You could probably do a batch conversion with some script.

Sindi