From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 15:12:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EFC37B502 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.130]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001004221242.UGVP19709.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:12:42 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e94MCaY00651; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:12:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:12:30 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: John Murphy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local man.cgi? Message-ID: <20001004231230.A252@parish> References: <51hftsgaknqd7goqmtk1g9ud3phltrmhau@4ax.com> <20001002183826.D252@parish> <9r4nts0gcivt833kba25ubu8jbvl04t7mq@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9r4nts0gcivt833kba25ubu8jbvl04t7mq@4ax.com>; from john253@crosswinds.net on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:03:48PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:03:48PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:23:40AM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > >> How can I obtain man.cgi, and does it read from the usual man data source? > >> I have 'apache' running and scripts work ok. > >> > > > >man.cgi is in the man2html port. /usr/ports/textproc/man2html note that > >there was a fix applied to this port very recently (to stop the message > >"Formatting page..." message ending up in the cat/foobar.1.gz file if it > >had to be created. > > > Thanks Mark > Unfortunately that man.cgi seems a lot less capable than the one on the > web site. I guess it would be too much to ask for the real man.cgi. > Well, the only major difference that I can see is that the one at www.freebsd.org has manpages for every release of FreeBSD and numerous other *nixes. Do you really need that. The main reason I use it is that it makes all the X-refs to other manpages into hyper-links so it is a doddle to search (and back-track) if you don't know exactly which manpage you need to look at. > John. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message