Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 02:50:24 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199705180150.CAA01987@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 May 1997 19:30:56 BST." <199705171830.TAA23763@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> Hi,
>
> I don't know who the current web-meister is, but would it be
> possible for you to do the following ?
>
> The intention is to have browsable -current set of man pages.
>
> In srm.conf:
> ----------
> AddType text/man 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1.gz 2.gz 3.gz 4.gz 5.gz 6.gz 7.gz 8.gz 9.gz
> Action text/man /cgi-bin/man2html
> ----------
>
> man2html:
> ----------
> #! /bin/sh
>
> if test -n "$PATH_TRANSLATED"; then
> test ."${PATH_TRANSLATED%.gz}" = ."$PATH_TRANSLATED" &&
> prog=/bin/cat || prog="/usr/bin/gunzip -c"
> $prog $PATH_TRANSLATED |
> /usr/bin/tbl |
> /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -man |
> /usr/bin/col |
> sed 's/.^H//g'
Or:
sed -e 's/.^H//g' -e 's/$/^M/'
(with real ^H & ^Ms may be better)
> else
> echo "Internal server error.... oops !"
> fi
> ----------
>
> All we need to do then is point at a -current /usr/share/man
> (cvs co'd regularly) somewhere under "Documentation", allowing
> "options Indexes".
>
> Thanks for any responses.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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