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Re: Local copy of ALL man pages



Doug wrote:
On 01/09/2013 03:06 PM, Brian wrote:
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 at 14:07:12 -0500, Doug wrote:

On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, 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'


At one time there was a big fat book called "The Linux
Bible" that
had all the man pages that existed then.  I don't know if
it still
exists, but you might look for that.
You'll be glad to know the usual search methods show it
does exist. What
do you recommend? He purchases it and scans it onto his
machine?


Why scan it in--just open it and read it.   --doug


May be a worthwhile tome.
HOWEVER,
None of first 30 Google hits imply it might be accessed via 'man' command ;/



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