Re: debian meta-help?

[Alair Pereira do Lago <alair@ime.usp.br>]

IMO, if you try dwww, you are gonna live without it anymore.

David Pfitzner <dwp@mso.anu.edu.au> writes:

> (I don't have dwww since I don't have any other need for
> a local web server,

I've heard 'boa' is a ligth web server that can be sufficient for you. I have
also heard that lynx does not need a web-server to be the interface of dwww.   

> and setting one up just for dwww seemed like
> overkill - especially since dwww just(?) provides alternative
> access to docs I already know how to get to.)

Even for just reading manpages, it is better since you can follow crossed
references inside the manpage.  You also get a more complete info on a topic
you are looking for. Just an example, if I search info on mount I get

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Search results

Documentation related to mount

Package: mount

Manual pages: nfs(5) fstab(5) swapoff(8) losetup(8) mount(8) swapon(8)
              umount(8)

Info files: none. 

Other documents: /usr/doc/mount /usr/doc/mount/examples 

Manual page search: amd(8) fdlist(1) fdmount(1) fdmountd(1) fdumount(1)
                    gitmount(1) mmount(1) mount(2) mount(8) mountd(8)
                    rpc.mountd(8) setup(2) showmount(8) smbmount(8) umount(2)
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Alair Pereira do Lago  <alair@ime.usp.br> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair>
Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil


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