hman
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 19 January 1998
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NAME
hman - browse the on-line manual pages
SYNOPSIS
hman
[ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] name
hman
[ -P browser ] [ -H host ] [ section ] [ index ]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
- -P browser
-
Specify which browser (like lynx, xmosaic, arena, chimera,
netscape, amaya, ...) to use.
This option overrides the
MANHTMLPAGER
environment variable.
The default is the non-httpd version of
lynx,
or
sensible-browser
if
lynx
cannot be found.
- -H host
-
Specify from what host to get the man pages.
This option overrides the
MANHTMLHOST
environment variable.
The default is
localhost.
ENVIRONMENT
- MANHTMLPAGER
-
The default browser to use is selected using this environment variable.
- MANHTMLHOST
-
The default host to use is selected using this environment variable.
SEE ALSO
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
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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- SEE ALSO
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man2html,
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Time: 19:49:11 GMT, April 27, 2011