[haiku] Re: Man

  • From: Chris Roberts <cpr420@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:18:45 -0600

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 24 août 2010 à 21:54, Dave Osbourne a écrit :
>
>>> Haiku comes with a bunch of man pages, but no man command.
>>> Is this on purpose?
>>>
>> I believe you can use troff -n or something like that as an alias instead.


http://ports-space.haiku-files.org/sys-apps/man-1.6f-x86-gcc2-2010-05-17.zip
http://ports-space.haiku-files.org/sys-apps/groff-1.20.1-x86-gcc2-2010-05-17.zip

I also have mandoc built but it requires some trickery because the
Haiku C library is missing a function.


> Best would be to have html versions with one of the many man2html available...
>
> I already have a basic BeHappy Man plugin done, we just need to have 
> WebPositive integrated to it ;-)
>
> François.
>


That would be nice for API documentation which is distributed in man
format, but I'd rather not have to switch to another application to
look up information for command line applications.


--Chris

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