On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:55:58PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > I have played around a bit with the idea. Some preliminary results I put > up at http://manpages.debian.net/ . Just very basic stuff so far. You > can search for the exact name of a man page or package and read them > in HTML, plain text and roff source. And there is a index available, > sorted by man page names. Have you tried the Man CGI interfaces that are available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi, http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi or http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?++NetBSD-current ? There seems to be quite a number of MAN cgi implementations [1] so maybe it's best to base a new interface and adapting it taking into account our needs (show indexes of manpages based on package) and our issues (some packages have manpage conflicts). I have not made a deep revision but this one seems to be the one most people fork from: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~christia/man-cgi.html (quite simple, just a little bit of sed/awk) The only problem with the above script it that it assumes you are running it in a system which has all the manpages, it might need to be adapted (like NetBSD did) so that it can handle multiple different manpages collections (NetBSD's provides a mechanism to search by architecture and collection). Just my 2c Regrds Javier [1] http://www.w3.org/Tools/Man_faq_filters.html
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