Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?
*- On 12 Jun, Carl Mummert wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ? "
>>I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files.
>>Of course, these files are gziped, according to debian policy.
>>Is there any way to choose to install these docs in ungziped as default?
>>I can ungzip these, but also want to leave these under control of package
>>manager.
>
> I am uploading here a small, hackish perl script that, along with some
> apache configuration changes, will allow you to view the compressed
> files in http://your-machine/doc as if they were not comrpessed.
>
The dwww package already does all this and more. Check it out.
Package: dwww
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 169
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
Version: 1.4.3.4-0.2
Depends: httpd, man, perl, libc6
Recommends: info2www, menu (>= 0.11)
Suggests: lynx
Description: Read all on-line documentation via WWW
dwww lets you read all install on-line documentation via a local
WWW server. When possible, it converts the documentation to HTML.
You need both a WWW server and a WWW browser.
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Brian
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