Well, it's in PHP not Perl, but you might checkout:
http://www2.linuxpakistan.net/man.php
It might do some of the things you want to do...
Pete
Puneet Kishor wrote:
> Greetings Jerry.
>
> Last night I downloaded your wonderful little man page viewer. I have
> modified the code a tad bit so it now primarily --
> - runs in a frameset so a search field is always visible at the top;
> - added code to remember visited man pages --
> - visited man pages are added to a "bookshelf" on the left.
> - duplicate entries to the bookshelf are removed.
>
> I also zipped up the files for the viewer and put a link on the top
> frame for downloading the entire thing.
>
> The whole thing can be viewed at and downloaded from
> http://209.83.8.226/perlman/
>
> three things --
> 1. I am not sure what the protocol is... should I have sent all the mods
> to you so you could have decided to put it up on your website (or not).
> You didn't have any such instructions in your code, so I didn't. If yes,
> just let me know and I will remove it from my website. Of course, all
> your original attributions and acknowledgements are there.
>
> 2. I get a "gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe" message at the top of the
> manpage displayed. I dunno what is causing this since this doesn't occur
> on my iBook (the above website is no an old beat-up Red Hat box.
>
> 3. I would like to be able to convert links within manpages to actual
> links that can be clicked. For example, if I view the perldsc manpage,
> it says at the end, "SEE ALSO perlref(1), etc..." I would like to click
> on perlref, perllol, etc. and view those manpages as well. Any ideas?
>
> 4. I would also (probably this weekend) clean up the script, use strict
> and all that nonsense. Would you mind if I (or you) put this up on
> VersionTracker? You will be amazed at how many folks might find it useful.
