Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Greg Madden wrote:
> On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote:
> > When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled
> > package I've used http://manpages.debian.net .
> > It would more convenient to have *ALL* pages available locally.
> >
> > Are they available to download as a set somewhere on the
> > web? [I use squeeze.]
> >
> > I have copied all the .deb files from the 8 DVD install set
> > to a USB drive.  How could I extract all the man pages?
> >
> > TIA
>
> Check out 'dwww'

To clarify my motivation:
  1. divorce myself {as much as possible} from the web - 
I'm on dial-up.
  2. access all man pages {whether or not package 
installed} using the man command.

I've also thought of another possible use for having copy of 
all man pages available locally. Create a personalized 
keyword search index.