I dunno, try this in Konqueror
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| Author | Content |
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| hiohoaus Oct 26, 2006 12:24 AM EDT |
man:gawk Quite readable in a browser, even if it's not lynx. It's quite a handy browser, try something like fish://name.of.ssh.server one day, as well. And there's much other stuff it does. |
| tuxchick2 Oct 26, 2006 7:06 AM EDT |
What if you're not running X Windows? |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 26, 2006 7:50 AM EDT |
lynx? |
| tuxchick2 Oct 26, 2006 8:15 AM EDT |
did either of you read the actual article? :) |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 26, 2006 12:37 PM EDT |
Yes. And Lynx works quite well for reading HTML docs. I hate info pages though. Maybe the poster of the article should try Debian. Debian mandates man pages for all applications. |
| jimf Oct 26, 2006 1:01 PM EDT |
> Debian mandates man pages for all applications. One of many, many reasons to run Debian :) |
| tuxchick2 Oct 26, 2006 1:54 PM EDT |
If you're familiar with Debian, then you've seen the sorry excuses of man pages that are written just to fulfill Debian's requirements. Like ImageMagick- compare man convert, for one example, to the HTML docs. man convert is pretty much just a pointer to 'convert -help', which is a barebones option summary, and /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/convert.html, which is more comprehensive and contains useful examples. And that's not even the worst offender- I wish I could remember which command it is, the man page says in effect "Debian makes me include this but they can't make me put useful information in it." |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 26, 2006 2:05 PM EDT |
That last example is a mere exception, but I have seen some man pages merely summarize and point to info pages. That said, the man pages are there and either provide the information, or point to where you can get the information. That's more than can be said for other distro's. I really wish someone would write a clever help application though. Gnome's Yelp has potential but it's too bare-bones and doesn't link/index all documentation on the system. A Yelp that could automagically find application documentation (e.g. searching for files/folders named "manual" or "docs" alongside all man and info pages) with a powerfull search and an auto-indexer would be great. |
| jimf Oct 26, 2006 2:20 PM EDT |
> "Debian makes me include this but they can't make me put useful information in it." Unfortunately true, still, many apps do put useful info there. We need to tell the developers that we need that. |
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