[plug] The death of Man Pages. was: Trouble with LILO

[Rob Hall]

Just thought you might like to know that SuSE Linux has a similar tool.
Can't remember its name for the moment and I'm not at my Linux box.  It's
actually a web aplet for apache that formats man pages in html for the web
server.  It also catalogues all the man pages on your system - very handy.
It means you only need to install man pages on the server.  I will send more
details later - pressed for time right now.



Regards,


Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Paul Wilson
> Sent: 14 February 1999 07:58
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] The death of Man Pages. was: Trouble with LILO
>
>
> > From: David Buddrige <buddrige at q-net.net.au>
> > Paul Wilson wrote:
> > > OK, found it.  It's 1000 lines of source, and needs checking over for
> Linux
> > > compatability (I'll find time to do some of that tomorrow).
> >
> > Coooool....... wouldn't mind having a pee-bo at the code if u want to
> email it
> > to me... 8-)
> >
> > > What do I do with the thing now?  I've just realised that
> I've actually
> got
> > > no idea what
> > > a GPL release involves !
> >
> > Basically get a copy of the GPL in text format (you should be
> able to get
> one
> > from opensource.org.au or Redhat.com.au) and then edit the text
> files and
> add
> > a note to each saying that this code is released under the Gnu public
> license,
> > and that it may be freely distributed and modified under those terms.
> Then
> > tar/gzip the whole thing and post it somewhere (have you got  a
> web-page?)
> > where it can be freely downloaded.  If u like I can post it on my own
> > web-site... just email it to me, and I'll post it on my site...
> >
> > You could possibly also send it to one of the main GPL distro outlets
> such as
> > sunsite.anu.edu.au... I don't know the procedure there though... (Could
> anyone
> > suggest what the procedure might be for posting something at sunsite? )
>
> OK Dave, I still need to do a few things to it, but I'll gzip and
> email the
> source 'as is' later this morning.  At the moment, it takes a command as a
> parameter and prints an HTML stream onto stdout. I'd rather have it take a
> parameter conventionally, *or* accept it via the CGI mechanism (which I
> have the code for). That way, it will be able to exist as either a 'batch'
> job to bulk process man pages in the background, or as a CGI binary which
> will dynamically produce HTMLised man pages on request. I should
> be able to
> fit those changes into todays workload.
>
> Thanks for the info about GPL, I'll do that and drop it off on my
> web pages
> somewhere together with a demo.
>
> Paul
>