>She asked if there was programs that presented man in html and I said
>that I thought so. Then she said why isn't it used automatically, is
>this some tribal rite you unix fantasist must undergo when you learn new
>things.
Speaking of which...
I'm currently starting a project on sourceforge called php-man-gateway
(throw that in front of sourceforge.net to get the homepage). There's really
nothing there at the moment except a minimal PHP script that pipes the
output of 'man [section] command' through 'col -b' to remove nasties and
displays it inside of a <pre> </pre> block. I'm hoping to eventually make a
functional alternative to 'man2html' in PHP, with automatic linking to other
pages, fun colors and font sizes, and all that type of stuff. As it exists
currently, check out http://mattman.dhs.org/man.php for the real thing,
man.phps for the source. Hopefully I can get the sourceforge site somewhat
functional in a few days, and get development going. Any help would be much
appreciated, as this is as much an excercise to teach myself PHP than
anything else.
Matt
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