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92 lines
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This directory contains the following.
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1. man2html
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This is a pure manroff -> html converter.
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No manpath search etc.
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Call: man2html [-l | -H host.domain:port] [filename]
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The contents of FILENAME (or STDIN, in case FILENAME is "-" or absent)
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are converted from man-style nroff to html, and printed on STDOUT.
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With "-l" URLs of the form "lynxcgi:/home/httpd/cgi-bin/..." are generated.
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With "-H host" we make URLs of the form "http://host/cgi-bin/...".
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The default is "http://localhost/cgi-bin/...".
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2. A collection of scripts
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This part is not installed by "make install" of the global Makefile.
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There are security considerations: it is very unlikely that these
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scripts (still in alpha) are secure, so for the time being they
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should only be used where security is not a major concern.
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If you are not afraid, or are not running a httpd, do
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"make install-scripts" in this directory.
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This does three things: install man stuff, install glimpse stuff,
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and install user interface stuff.
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2A. man stuff
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This first part (that can be done separately with "make install-man-scripts")
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puts various scripts under /home/httpd/cgi-bin and /home/httpd/cgi-aux
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in a subdirectory man.
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It will create a directory /var/man2html to hold the indices.
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(This directory should be writable by the cgi scripts;
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probably that means that the owner should be nobody.
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Choose a group and add all non-httpd users that should be
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able to write this directory to that group.)
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Structure of the collection of scripts:
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man2html is the main script.
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It uses man.aux when called without arguments.
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It uses manwhatis when asked for an index of manpages+descriptions.
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It uses mansec when asked for a compact index of manpages.
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It uses mansearch when asked for a glimpse search.
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In its turn mansearch uses mansearch.aux when called
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without arguments. It uses mansearchhelp (which uses
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mansearchhelp.aux) when asked for help.
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2B. glimpse stuff
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The second part (that can be done separately with
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"make install-glimpse-stuff") installs .glimpse_filters
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in /var/man2html, in order to tell glimpse what decompressors to use.
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2C. user interface stuff
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The third part (that can be done separately with "make install-hman")
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installs a user interface to these scripts in /usr/bin/hman.
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Now people can say
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alias man=/usr/bin/hman
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and have a man that uses a html browser.
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The browser is chosen via environment variables - look at the script.
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3. Glimpse.
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For the glimpse part, I quote Michael Hamilton:
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To use the Glimpse full text searching, you will need to install
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glimpse in /usr/bin. Redhat rpm users can get glimpse from
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ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/glimpse-4.0-6.i386.rpm
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The glimpse home ftp site is cs.arizona.edu. N.B. glimpse is not
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freely redistributable for commercial use, I'd be very interested in a
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more liberal alternative. Having installed glimpse, you will need to
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build a glimpse index in /var/man2html. This doesn't take too long -
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about 3 minutes on my 486DX2/66 16MB machine. As root do:
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/usr/bin/glimpseindex -z -H /var/man2html /usr/man/man* /usr/X11R6/man/man* \
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/usr/local/man/man* /opt/man/man*
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chmod ugo+r /var/man2html/.glimpse*
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The -z option causes glimpse to apply any filters (for decompression etc)
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specified in /var/man2html/.glimpse_filters.
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This could be set up as a cron job in /etc/crontab, e.g. (the following
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must be all on one line):
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21 04 * * 1 root /usr/bin/glimpseindex -z -H /var/man2html /usr/man/man*
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/usr/X11R6/man/man* /usr/local/man/man* /opt/man/man* ;
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chmod +r /var/man2html/.glimpse*
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