Re: man pages

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

Doesn't dwww already do this, and more?

You'd have to manually extract all the manpages for the debs you
don't have installed...  But otherwise, I don't think there is any
work involved.

Jeff

On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:38:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I have a strange request ... here goes.
> 
> We're starting to use Debian quite a bit here.  Of course, each PC has a
> different configuration.  It would be helpful if I could install all
> (well, mostly all, anyway) of the manpages on one server, and serve them
> out via man2html for the rest of the users.  They already understand the
> browser interface.
> 
> Given that I have a mirror of Debian already, how would I go about
> extracting the manpages?  Currently, I can get to a manpage if the
> package has been installed on the webserver.  I'm guessing I can just
> unpack each deb and grab the manpages out of it ... am I missing
> anything here?


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