Re: [SLE] Info vs. Man -- Konqueror to the Rescue!

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:14:49 +1100

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:11 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> For, those who, like me, dislike the "info" program
> as a viewer for info files may be pleased to know that
> Konqueror has a protocol specifically for presenting info files.
> It presents info files in a form far more accessible
> than the info command itself. You can think of
> it as being an HTML conversion of a command's info files.

Yes, but TIMTOWTDI (There is more than one way to do it)
The standard Susehelp system comes with a serverside
 info to HTML translator, making info files browseable.

If you have your default suse apache setup
 just browse to:
        http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html

 for a complete linked list of info pages.

I have (and you may need):
        /etc/sysconfig/apache2:DOC_SERVER="yes"
        /etc/sysconfig/susehelp:DOC_HOST="localhost"
        /etc/sysconfig/susehelp:DOC_ALLOW="all"

I love Linux, there's so much there, you just have to find it,
michaelj

PS: I found this out the long way round.
Got reprimanded for being so last week as to use man,
 fought with info, realized that all that emacs horror
 was trying to implement hyperlinking.
Worked out that it would be better done in HTML
 wondered how to write some translator
 posted on the local Linux group asking if such a thing existed,
 got back a mention of info2html, did a locate on it
 and found it was there all along.
I was shouting, "WOW" at the same time I was
 kicking myself for being such a dumb klutz.

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