From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 7:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B0837B503 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn38-ras7.screaming.net [212.49.230.38]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA20963 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:36:24 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local man.cgi? Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:32:41 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:03:48PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: >> Unfortunately that man.cgi seems a lot less capable than the one on = the >> web site. I guess it would be too much to ask for the real man.cgi. >>=20 > >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. > Right again, I was trying to use the man search page html without enough changes, eg: query needs to be topic, sektion - section etc. It's working well now, and very useful too... ATB John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message