[Techtalk] Re: info

Beth Johnson linux.chick at verizon.net
Fri Sep 6 00:03:54 EST 2002


On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 18:15, Kathryn Andersen wrote:

> I have discovered something interesting -- man -H or man --html gives
> HTML output!  It displays the manpage in lynx or in the browser defined
> by $BROWSER.  So you can ignore everything I said about webmin, and go
> 
> BROWSER=mozilla man --html fsck
> 
> and it will display the manpage for fsck in your current browser window

Hmm, I'm running RH 7.3 with man 1.5j and get "invalid option --html"

That sucks because I hate reading the man pages in a term window.

regards,
Beth
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