Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:20:12 -0500 From: Carl Tucker <cft@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <20020122212012.GA1105@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20020122171911.67E425D0A@ptavv.es.net> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> <20020122171911.67E425D0A@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > The "official" way is to cd to someplace in the ports tree and "make > readmes". You can do this at /usr/ports, but it will take a while! > Once complete, you the HTML browser of your choice to look around > starting at README.html in the directory you did the "make" in. I don't find the README.html files made that way any more useful than just doing 'lynx /usr/ports' and navigating around to the pkg-descr files. Actually I have my ports tree as a lynx bookmark, and start it with 'lynx -book'. Fewer keystrokes. -- Carl Tucker cft@panix.com flestrin@worldnet.att.net tuckercl@phnsy.navy.mil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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