lean indexed navigation tool for system help
Hi, :-) Someone using a lesser linux distro is asking me if there's any kind of a lean navigation tool which indexes the typical Linux help facilities built into his box such as man and info pages, HOWTO's, /usr/doc/*.gz, and so on. My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and locations. However, he would like a leaner, ready-made utility. Do any of you less mortals know of anything that would fit this description? p.s.: don't look at my headers yet. :-) -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and locations. However, he would like a leaner, ready-made utility. Do any of you less mortals know of anything that would fit this description? Yes. man2html, info2www, dwww and dhelp. All of them are debian packages. Check them out. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help
On 25 Feb 1998 11:52:11 +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and locations. However, he would like a leaner, ready-made utility. Do any of you less mortals know of anything that would fit this description? Yes. man2html, info2www, dwww and dhelp. All of them are debian packages. Check them out. I never knew dwww and dhelp existed. Thanks! :-) p.s.: I'm working on my headers again. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
