From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 13:20:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4C437B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAA78EA2 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:20:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from cft@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g0MLKCu02093 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:20:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:20:12 -0500 From: Carl Tucker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <20020122212012.GA1105@panix.com> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> <20020122171911.67E425D0A@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020122171911.67E425D0A@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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