From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 21:56:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96EF137B503 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27647 invoked by uid 100); 5 Oct 2000 04:56:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14812.2563.93855.361861@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:56:35 -0500 (CDT) To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local man.cgi? In-Reply-To: <24503641@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens writes: > Well, the only major difference that I can see is that the one at > www.freebsd.org has manpages for every release of FreeBSD and numerous > other *nixes. Do you really need that. The main reason I use it is that it > makes all the X-refs to other manpages into hyper-links so it is a doddle > to search (and back-track) if you don't know exactly which manpage you need > to look at. The Emacs/Xemacs man package prodes those hyperlinks as well. It's is indeed very nice.