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Authored by: midan23 on Oct 28, '02 11:11:53AM

OK, I tried ManOpen and ManThor and it seems to me that both tools are nothing more than a GUI for the man command ...
That meens that you have about 60 to 70 characters per line ...
Ok, they are formatted, but to get something like that, man can do the job ...

I prefer something like in Linux : man -Thtml bash > bash.html produces a nice man page in html ...
The problem : It doesn't work in Mac X ...

I think it could be nice to open the url "http://localhost/man" to have a list of sections and favorite man pages ...

But until I found a way to produce html man pages ... I continue to search ...



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Authored by: mervTormel on Oct 28, '02 10:08:34PM

a post from pmccann has a good solution for man to html...

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=19430#post19430

you'll need to acquire rman from fink, probably.



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Authored by: midan23 on Oct 29, '02 03:30:15AM

rman is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you ...

(Btw, it seems to me that rman is either part of Jaguar or part of XDarwin ...)



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Authored by: thatch on Oct 29, '02 03:40:49PM

I must have missed that in the forums back in July. Wow, it is the greatest method of them all, IMO.



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