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 ===== Introduction ===== ===== Introduction =====
  
-//man2html// can generate //on the fly// HTML pages from //man// documentation. This makes it a useful addition to [[howtos:software:asciidoc_mini_howto|asciidoc]] based notes. [1] One of the advantages it offers is that when //man// pages are converted to HTML they become navigable through hyperlinks. A similar script exists for //info//, [[http://www.w3.org/Tools/info2www.html|info2www]].+//man2html// can generate //on the fly// HTML pages from //man// documentation. This makes it a useful addition to [[howtos:software:asciidoc_mini_howto|asciidoc]] based notes. 
 +((The HTML from //man2html// is formatted differently from that of //asciidoc//, and a possible, but heavy-handed, solution might be the use of [[http://slackbuilds.org/office/pandoc/|pandoc]], available from Slackbuilds.org.)) 
 +One of the advantages it offers is that when //man// pages are converted to HTML they become navigable through hyperlinks. A similar script exists for //info//, [[http://www.w3.org/Tools/info2www.html|info2www]].
  
 //man2html// can be used from the command line, for example, to read in //lynx// the html-formatted //man// page of //grep//: //man2html// can be used from the command line, for example, to read in //lynx// the html-formatted //man// page of //grep//:
  
-**''$ zcat $(man --path 1 grep) | man2html -l | lynx -stdin''**+  $ zcat $(man --path 1 grep) | man2html -l | lynx -stdin
  
 It is more useful, however, to setup a //cgi-bin// infrastructure which will allow the //on the fly// operation, see man2html(1). It is more useful, however, to setup a //cgi-bin// infrastructure which will allow the //on the fly// operation, see man2html(1).
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 ===== lynxcgi ===== ===== lynxcgi =====
  
-This works only from lynx. Make sure lynx is compiled with enabled cgi-bin, the default for Slackware.+This works only from //lynx//. Make sure //lynx// is compiled with enabled ''cgi-bin'', the default for Slackware.
  
 **''$ mkdir -p /home/httpd/cgi-bin/man''** **''$ mkdir -p /home/httpd/cgi-bin/man''**
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