[Techtalk] KDE, Konqueror and man pages

[Liz Young]

On Friday 03 October 2003 04:09 pm, Hamster wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a question about man pages being displayed as html.
>
> If you're running KDE, in Konqueror, if you type something like
> man:ls or man:tar in the URL bar, then it displays the man page in
> question beautifully formatted in HTML.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what utility is being used to convert those
> man pages into html?

Hi Hamster!

From the kdebase-3.1/kioslave/man source, there is a man2html.cpp
file.  I googled on man2html, and this is the first link:
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/man2html.html

Liz