From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 10:38:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF7F37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.88.161]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001002183724.HFU23965.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:37:24 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e92HcQM01880; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:38:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:38:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: John Murphy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local man.cgi? Message-ID: <20001002183826.D252@parish> References: <51hftsgaknqd7goqmtk1g9ud3phltrmhau@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <51hftsgaknqd7goqmtk1g9ud3phltrmhau@4ax.com>; from john253@crosswinds.net on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:23:40AM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > 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... > > > John. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message