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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 May 1997 19:30:56 BST."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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....