Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 14:14:57 +1000 From: Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net> To: Bart Trzynadlowski <trzy@powernet.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: online man pages? Message-ID: <19990529141457.A11808@blues.ghis.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990528210209.00875100@powernet.net> References: <3.0.5.32.19990528210209.00875100@powernet.net>
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On Fri, 28 May 1999 at 21:02:09 -0700, Bart Trzynadlowski wrote: > Hello, > I thought perhaps this suggestion might best belong hear. I am > fairly new to FreeBSD and find that man pages help out a lot > (ofcourse, that IS what manuals are for anyway...). However I cannot > print stuff while in FreeBSD and the hassle of streaming the output > of "man topic" into a file, copying that file to my DOS partition, > and then rebooting to Win95 to print it is becoming a bit of a > hassle :) > > I was wondering if the FreeBSD.org web site would consider putting > up some simple CGI script that would enable a user to type in a > topic, submit the query, and be greeted by the man page. This is > just a suggestion, I've never done stuff with CGI or Perl but I'm > assuming taking the output of a man page and printing it over HTTP > would be possible and fairly helpful. Such an animal already exists, and has for quite some time. Did you look? Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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