Re: man --> info?
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Why are man pages abandoned for info?
Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.
> Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least
> has xman viewer.
ever tryed man -X <page> ??
if it's too little, try man -TX100 <page>
> Is there any option? Have man pages been html'ed for Debian? I have seen
> some INternet sites with man pages online..
Newer groff has a html device which will improve in next version 1.16,
not yet released.
man -Thtml <page> will produce it already.
redirect it to a file and read that page from your preferred browser.
man source has a not-yet-enabled option -H that does that.
Things are moving. Do you wanna help?
fab
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