From: MCzapski AT openplus DOT com DOT au (Michael Czapski) Subject: RE: Manual Page 18 Sep 1998 17:52:05 -0700 Message-ID: <01BDE34B.2F8E01D0.MCzapski.cygnus.gnu-win32@openplus.com.au> Reply-To: "MCzapski AT openplus DOT com DOT au" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'Taro Ienaga'" , "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" On Friday, September 18, 1998 12:12 AM, Taro Ienaga [SMTP:ienaga AT strg DOT sony DOT co DOT jp] wrote: > Hi, all. > > I'm making some tools used by Gnu-Win32 and thinking how does > imprement manual page(s) (eg. unix man command). > > My idea is as follows: > > Page Formatting Language: HTML > Manual Viewer: WWW Browser > > The reason is that most of systems support HTML and have WWW Browser > today. > > I want to look up manual pages from Gnu-Win32 (bash) command line and > make a simple imprement just now. the command, winman, is used as > follows: > > $ winman command > > Then winman searchs file 'command.html' in the pathes specified by the > emviroment variables WINMANPAH and open it with the defalt web browser. > > My question is there is already implement such above in Internet. If > it already exists, I stop making my implement and use Internet's. > > Thanks, > > T.Ienaga > > - Hello Taro, Unless you can do much better than has been done already by numerous people, I would not bother. There were, over the years, a number of implementations. Do a web search for man2html and similar. It will turn up a number of sites that offer the man pages in html format for public lookup, not to mention there being tools available to convert man pages to html. Back in the dark ages of the www, circa 1994-1995 doing man pages in html format was one of the things budding cgi programmers would do just to learn how to do cgi :-) ------------------ Cheers ... Michael Czapski - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".