hman - browse the on-line manual pages
hman [ -P
browser ] [ -H
host ] [
section ]
name
hman [ -P
browser ] [ -H
host ] [
section ] [ index
]
The
hman script is an interface to
man2html(1) that allows you to enter
man page requests at the command line and view the output in your favourite
browser. The behaviour reminds of that of
man(1) so that many people
will be able to alias
hman to
man. If the browser used is
netscape, and an incarnation of netscape is running already,
hman will
pass the request to the existing browser.
- -P browser
- Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera,
netscape, amaya, ...) to use. This option overrides the
MANHTMLPAGER environment variable. The default is
sensible-browser.
A special value lynxcgi can be used for the non-httpd version of
lynx, but this requires the lynx(1) command to be installed
and approprietly configured.
- -H host
- Specify from what host to get the man pages. This option
overrides the MANHTMLHOST environment variable. The default is
localhost.
- MANHTMLPAGER
- The default browser to use is selected using this
environment variable.
- MANHTMLHOST
- The default host to use is selected using this environment
variable.
man(1),
man2html(1),
arena(1),
lynx(1),
sensible-browser(1),
netscape(1),
xmosaic(1),
glimpse(1)
http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html