Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
HXC wrote, On 27/10/06 19:10: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Doing lynx file:///usr/share/doc works well here, with gzip'd files automatically expanded for reading (using lynx from the lynx-cur package in unstable here). Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
Arthur Marsh wrote: HXC wrote, On 27/10/06 19:10: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? mc (midnight commander) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
On 10/27/2006 05:50 AM, HXC wrote: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? My favorite is midnight commander running in an aterm (xterm) window. It's fast, versatile, and reads all formats; .txt, .gz, .html, .pdf, etc. internally or with your favorite readers for those formats. $ apt-cache show mc But $ man command is the way to go for just the man pages. I also find these two references very handy: $ apt-cache show debian-reference Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/ Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/27/2006 05:50 AM, HXC wrote: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? My favorite is midnight commander running in an aterm (xterm) window. It's fast, versatile, and reads all formats; .txt, .gz, .html, .pdf, etc. internally or with your favorite readers for those formats. Then (in X) add in xman for real manpages: xman -notopbox -bothshown That's a point and click interface to the man pages. As well, pinfo (character/console based) is nice for Gnu Info help file format. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Various ways of reading man pages, documentation man pagename vim, :Man pagename emacs, M-x man konqueror, man:pagename info pagename pinfo pagename install dwww, and go to http://localhost/dwww/ in any browser install man2html and enter the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web browser. khelpcenter yelp and finally dont forget google :-) My favorites so far has been konqueror, dwww YMMV. Please let me know if I have missed anything... raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Various ways of reading man pages, documentation man pagename vim, :Man pagename emacs, M-x man konqueror, man:pagename info pagename pinfo pagename install dwww, and go to http://localhost/dwww/ in any browser install man2html and enter the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web browser. khelpcenter yelp and finally dont forget google :-) My favorites so far has been konqueror, dwww YMMV. Please let me know if I have missed anything... raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
HXC wrote: That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Various ways of reading man pages, documentation man pagename vim, :Man pagename emacs, M-x man konqueror, man:pagename info pagename pinfo pagename install dwww, and go to http://localhost/dwww/ in any browser install man2html and enter the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web browser. khelpcenter yelp and finally dont forget google :-) My favorites so far has been konqueror, dwww YMMV. Please let me know if I have missed anything... raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ The description for dwww reads: Read all on-line documentation with a WWW browser All installed on-line documentation will be served via a local HTTP server. When possible, dwww converts the documentation to HTML. You need to install both a CGI-capable HTTP server and a WWW browser to read the documentation. I believe it will do what you want. Bob smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?
On Friday 27 October 2006 16:58, HXC wrote: That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? Since all the README files are just text files without special formatting, I just use gvim. gvim has an inbuilt file explorer (not very good, but works). Recently (from 7.0 onwards) it has tab functionality. So you can open different files in different tabs of the same gvim window. You can do all these things in other powerful editors (like emacs etc.,). So choose the one that sutis you best. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
