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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:38:26 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: local man.cgi?
Message-ID:  <20001002183826.D252@parish>
In-Reply-To: <51hftsgaknqd7goqmtk1g9ud3phltrmhau@4ax.com>; from john253@crosswinds.net on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:23:40AM %2B0100
References:  <51hftsgaknqd7goqmtk1g9ud3phltrmhau@4ax.com>

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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:23:40AM +0100, John Murphy wrote:
> For various reasons, I'm forced to regress to a metered Internet product,
> and one thing I'll miss is the online man page feature of the FreeBSD web
> site.  So:
> 
> How can I obtain man.cgi, and does it read from the usual man data source?
> I have 'apache' running and scripts work ok.
> 

man.cgi is in the man2html port. /usr/ports/textproc/man2html note that
there was a fix applied to this port very recently (to stop the message
"Formatting page..." message ending up in the cat/foobar.1.gz file if it
had to be created.


> <shields up>
> I find no real need to break away from my win95 desktop and Ie5/Agent
> environment.  It's comfortable, and somehow more stable since installing
> other operating systems.  I bet win2k explorer can see ufs & ext2fs file
> systems.  Can't it?  Oh well...
> </shields>
> 
> John.
> 
> 
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