Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

HXC wrote:
That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/?

On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote:
I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/
and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would
list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc
directory. Anyone knows such a program?
Various ways of reading man pages, documentation
man pagename
vim, :Man pagename
emacs, M-x man
konqueror, man:pagename
info pagename
pinfo pagename
install dwww, and go to http://localhost/dwww/ in any browser
install man2html and enter the address
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web browser.
khelpcenter
yelp

and finally dont forget google :-)

My favorites so far has been konqueror, dwww YMMV. Please let me know if I
have missed anything...

raju


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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/


The description for dwww reads:

Read all on-line documentation with a WWW browser
All installed on-line documentation will be served via a local HTTP
server. When possible, dwww converts the documentation to HTML.
You need to install both a CGI-capable HTTP server and a WWW
browser to read the documentation.

I believe it will do what you want.

Bob

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