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Reading man pages in the current directory
Not sure if the Fink version of man is GNU (I suspect it is) but if you have the Fink version of man installed you can simply:
to display any manfile that is not installed. While we are on the subject of manpages... I personally prefer reading man pages through either openman or Safari (or other browser). There is a very nice cgi interface called "man-cgi" located here http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~christia/man-cgi.html
Man-cgi This allows you to quickly search and read local man pages on your machine using a url like:
or better yet create a Bookmarks Bar bookmark with this URL in it (broken into two lines for display below):
or drag this to bookmarks bar to add the above bookmarklet and it will pop up a simple dialog that allows you to enter your search term.
I just prefer the wide open spaces of a browser for reading long and complex man pages. |
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