Re: man --> info?
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 05/16/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> >On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:10:16AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > > At 05:53 AM 05/16/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> > > >. Perhaps you'd enjoy the dhelp
> > > >package. It's not perfect, but it works through your browser and will
> > > >render info and man pages as html on the fly using (info2www and
> > > >man2html).
> > >
> > > -- Where can I get info on this?
> >
> >It's a debian script thing. Browse the debian web site, or just
> >"apt-get install dhelp". It's pretty small, but will have to run a bit
> >initially to build up its indexes. I think a cron job periodically runs
> >to update the indexes as well.
>
>
> -- Neat, thanks.
>
> BUt;
>
> alpha{root}.139: apt-get install dhelp
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package dhelp has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package.
> E: Package dhelp has no installation candidate
I think that the package you're looking for is dwww. It needs an httpd
installed (boa is nice and lightweight), but it is well worth it.
your pal dave
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Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dthayer+sig@netcom.com
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