Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 21:02:09 -0700 From: Bart Trzynadlowski <trzy@powernet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: online man pages? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990528210209.00875100@powernet.net>
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Hello, I thought perhaps this suggestion might best belong hear. I am fairly new to FreeBSD and find that man pages help out a lot (ofcourse, that IS what manuals are for anyway...). However I cannot print stuff while in FreeBSD and the hassle of streaming the output of "man topic" into a file, copying that file to my DOS partition, and then rebooting to Win95 to print it is becoming a bit of a hassle :) I was wondering if the FreeBSD.org web site would consider putting up some simple CGI script that would enable a user to type in a topic, submit the query, and be greeted by the man page. This is just a suggestion, I've never done stuff with CGI or Perl but I'm assuming taking the output of a man page and printing it over HTTP would be possible and fairly helpful. Well, just another one of my random thoughts for ya! Thanks, Bart Trzynadlowski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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